Renaming Mac

[nicholab]

I want to write a script to change a mac's name and get the user to type their name. We are using JAMF to manage our Mac's. Ideal I would get the Machines model and user name concatenated to create the machine name.

[AntonioRocco]

Not sure if I have anything that helps but IIRC naming convention is limited to 15 characters. So whatever naming convention you've chosen try to keep within that limit otherwise it may become confusing. TBH I'm struggling to see how it would work if different users are logging onto workstations? If it was one person per workstation, fine, as you could make the script part of the deployment process. But on the fly as different users log in during the day, awkward, especially in terms of DNS records going stale very quickly which could give rise to failed logins as well as other network related issues.

 

Looks like you may be on your own with this one? Good luck if you manage it.

 

Antonio Rocco (ACSA)