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by tsen

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Can someone suggest a way to change the name of a workstation by appending one of the startup files??? The issue here is, I need to have a way to dynamically set the names of of our workstations to unique ones after they are reimaged.

thanks tsn

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by woody h

You can do this by using a program called Ghost Walker, put out by Symantec. It runs off of a floppy, once it loads, it shows you the current information and allows you to change the name, then apply the changes. Once it is finished, you reboot, and it is complete.

Woody

by frobo

Hi ,

one way is to use MS?s System Preparation Tool (Short SysPrep). Before you make an image from the master client, you install this and start it. After the cloning process on the target, it will give the client an uniqe Name. The neame is created from tha MAC - Adress of the NIC and other Parameters.

The other way is to use a tool like RegCHG and just change the name in the Registry:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName
REg_SZ AktivComputerName=MickyMouse01.

In anBatchfile you can use either the MAC Adress other somthing else to lookup the new Name.

Frobo

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