Naming a computer in Windows Deployment Services...

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Hi Everyone,

Is there anyway to make Windows Deployment Services prompt you for a
machine name when adding it to the domain? I have an unattend file that will
install Vista silently on the network but it gives a random name. I want to
be able to type in the computer name. Is that possible? I looked at the xml
example
<ComputerName>MyComputer</ComputerName> but I need it to prompt.


Thanks,
Ross
 
Hi,
another strange thing why I believe that the PE-bootimage integrated WDS-Client
is only in an early beta stage is, that there is a naming policy which can be
configured as wds server option (Directory-Tab). The default systemvariable is
set to '%61Username%H'. Why isn't the variable used by the wds-client to set the
computername? The wds client asks for the credentials to logon to the wds-server
so that an installation image can be interactively chosen.
 
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