[Udpcast] Windows and duped machine names

[Kenneth MacDonald]

You can bring down a sysprep'd image and write a sysprep.inf file
containing the name, network settings, etc. for Windows to read during
its minisetup.

See our stuff at http://pie.ucs.ed.ac.uk/pie-1.2/ and in particular
http://pie.ucs.ed.ac.uk/pie-1.2/bin/image-build-xp for how we do this,
optionally using udpcast (or http or CDROM) to fetch the actual image.

Cheers,

Kenny.

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 09:54 +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
> You need a SID changer, which can normally also set the host name.
> 
> There is no SID changer for linux.... yet.  It so happens that I am 
> working on one at the moment.  I hope it will be ready 'real soon now'.
> 
> I'll post to this list once I have a test version ready.
> 
> John.
> 
> Yannick Gingras wrote:
> 
> > Hi I'm wondering if there is a way to set the machine name
> > automatically after the broadcast.  I heard that the last version of
> > Ghost do something like that.  For the GNU/Linux boxen I can autoset
> > the hostname from a small script in init.d.  I don't know much about
> > Windows networking.  Is the hostname in some file that we can write to
> > by just mounting the partition?  Do we have to mess with the registry?
> > 
> > All the boxes connect to a Samba PDC.  Can I copy the machine accounts
> > and let them share the SID?
> > 
> 
> 
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