[Casper] Computer Name is not populating when imaging

[Thomas Larkin]

If there is no record of that machine in the JSS it won't pull a name down.  I haven't really used instaDMG so I can't give you a full reason why it is doing that.  I just use Composer to make an OS image after I configure it. 

You can try adding a line to your scripts as preflight to name the computer, assuming there is already a name on these boxes you are imaging? 

You can try adding a simple variable to your script 

compname=scutil --get ComputerName 

then just call the $compname in your script to set it like this 



scutil --set ComputerName $compname 

I would double check my syntax there.


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>>> "Smith, William" <william.smith at merrillcorp.com> 11/11/08 4:33 PM >>>
Hi Folks!

I am testing InstaDMG as a means of creating our base Mac OS X 10.5 image.
Currently, I have it creating a fully patched 10.5.5 image and that image is
in both our production Casper 5.13 system as well as our testing Casper 6.01
system.

This 10.5.5 image is virgin until I install it with Casper. I am using a
combination of scripts and packages to add a local admin user, prevent the
setup assistant from appearing, set network preferences, time zone, etc.

When I image with either Casper 5.13 or Casper Imaging 6.01 I'm finding that
the Computer Name is not getting populated in the Sharing preference pane.
It is completely blank. If I click the Edit... button to view the Local
Hostname it shows "Macintosh.local" instead of "MachineName.local".

Has anyone seen this behavior before? I've searched both the Composer and
Casper mailing list archives but neither returned results for InstaDMG.

Thanks!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492

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