Renaming workstation after WDS image?

[Guest Nutzer]

All,

 

Just finished setting up my WDS server to image XP workstations. I created a

sysprep.inf unattended file, syspreped the machine and captured, then imaged

the machine. Everything worked out fine, except to rename the machine to

"mycompany-XXX". I set the properties in WDS to set the format of the

renaming to the correct syntax "mycompany-%03#" but every time I image up a

workstation, it would give me "mycompa-ANXB" or something like that.

Is my sysprep.inf incorrect? I set the "ComputerName=*" Shouldn't WDS be

doing this correctly?

 

Also, I set in WDS to join the workstation to a certain folder object in AD

but it still puts it in the "Computers" object by default.

 

Thanks for any info!

[Guest Pete]

RE: Renaming workstation after WDS image?

 

I am experiencing a similar problem - I want to use the mac address of the

computer as it's name and what it geerates looks like the mac address, but it

is not - and when you re-image the same computer it is different.

 

How do I get this to work?

 

"Nutzer" wrote:

> All,

>

> Just finished setting up my WDS server to image XP workstations. I created a

> sysprep.inf unattended file, syspreped the machine and captured, then imaged

> the machine. Everything worked out fine, except to rename the machine to

> "mycompany-XXX". I set the properties in WDS to set the format of the

> renaming to the correct syntax "mycompany-%03#" but every time I image up a

> workstation, it would give me "mycompa-ANXB" or something like that.

> Is my sysprep.inf incorrect? I set the "ComputerName=*" Shouldn't WDS be

> doing this correctly?

>

> Also, I set in WDS to join the workstation to a certain folder object in AD

> but it still puts it in the "Computers" object by default.

>

> Thanks for any info!

>

>

>

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