The following process is especially useful when building a Mac OSX Image with a predetermined configuration for every user that logs into the machine.
A while back, I implemented FileWave as the mothership’s systems manager platform, one of the first modifications I applied was renaming all our mac’s that were not using our naming convention of chassis-serial.domain and bind them to the domain in one hit. I…
Here at the “Mothership” we had a big problem. Apple Mac computers were not named in a coherent way, that and some of our users didn’t like having an intangible name on their macs, so they would go and named the macs after their dogs and cats.