[Casper] Computer Name is not populating when imaging

Miles Leacy miles.leacy at themacadmin.com
Wed Nov 12 08:51:58 PST 2008


2008/11/12 Steve Wood <swood at integerdallas.com>

>  The test that the JAMF folks had me try was to use the jamf binary to
> rename:
>
> sudo jamf setComputerName -target "/Volumes/Macintosh HD/" -name "JAMF"
>
> When we did that the name would not change in the Sharing Pref panel until
> the machine was restarted.  Once restarted the machine showed the new name,
> JAMF in this case.
>

If you execute "hostname" after running this command, what is the output?

What about "scutil --get ComputerName"?

I ask because if the name is being changed, and it shows the new name in the
system tools that you will interact with, but you just don't see it in the
GUI until restart, is that really a problem?
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