renaming imac after imaging

[PEO]

This is really getting on my t1t5!

 

I've sucessfully setup an imac and imaged it, after that I then sent this image out to 9 other imacs and they all have the same name as the machine I origonaly imaged.

 

origional imac_01

 

ghosted machines

 

imac_01 (02)

imac_02 (03)

imac_03 (04) etc etc etc

 

I've been searching the net trying to find a simple answer to a stupid problem and everyone is saying you need to go to 'system preffrences - sharing andthen change the machine there.... but its grayed out!!

 

any ideas, help, or a gun would be greatfully appreciated

[richardp]

Hi,

 

I have just done the exact same thing for 30 imacs and I had no problem renaming them after imaging them. How have you done the imaging ? I imaged directly from one mac to another using carbon copy cloner and a 800 firewire cable. Both of them were off the network at the time of imaging and renaming. They were also not yet joined to either a windows active directory or mac open directory domain, I did that after I had renamed the target imac. If you are joined to a domain you may need to unbind before you can change the name.

 

The only other thing I did was to enable the root user account. In Leopard go to the "Open Directory" utility then "Edit" and select "Enable root user" then just enter a password.

 

 

Hope some of that helps

 

 

Richard

[GAS]

Hi,

First thing how you re-imaging??? Using OS x server and netboot ??? Or like super-doper ???

On system preference have you check that padlock on bottom left corner???

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