Hostname in netinstall image

Hello,
We have made a netinstall image with a settings file containing several mac addresses. Now is the problem that we have a wrong mac address and want to change this without making a new image. Does anyone know on which place this file is saved in the image folder ?
thnx,
Harry

Hello,
Do you want the text file for siu or the info in sharingNames.plist
The file for SIU is a plain text file with the next content:
00:0a:85:d4:9e:04<tab>mac1<tab>mac1
00:0a:85:d4:9e:05<tab>mac2<tab>mac2
The content of the file sharinNames.plist is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>kEthernetHostNameMapList</key>
<dict>
<key>000a85d49e05</key>
<dict>
<key>kEthernetBonjourNameMap</key>
<string>mac2</string>
<key>kEthernetComputerNameMap</key>
<string>mac2</string>
<key>kEthernetHostNameMap</key>
<string>mac2</string>
<key>kEthernetNameMap</key>
<string>00:0a:85:d4:9e:05</string>
</dict>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
kind regards,
Harry
Message was edited by: Harry van der Sluis

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I have to say that this error only shows when i try to boot from the netinstall image i created with the 10.4 system image utility.
The nbi image i created with netrestore helper does boot, shows me the installer, says it is completed but when it is rebooting the OS is still the same as before the installation, very weird.
According to this online document it should work as long as you create it with the right tools (10.4 tools for 10.4 images):
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It seems however that with a fresh install of Lion Server that trying to create a netinstall image from anything other then Lion doesnt work, even whipping out the old 10.6.3 install DVD mounts on the system but image utility shows no valid source.
i remember going from tiger sever to leopard that i could no longer make tiger images, and had to run from a tiger system to create them, but when i was running SL, i was able to share leopard images without issue.
So, is there anyway i can (without having to reinstall SL server ) i can create fresh netinstall images of 10.5 & 10.6OS's for my shiny new Lion server to share?
now unfortunatley the leopard & SL images i had previously are gone (a HDD crash giving me reason to upgrade) (yeah yeah i know, backups.. ) but i thought i would just reimage the files again as that is this servers only purpose.
Thank you kindly in advance, any help appreciated.
Richard

i know that was the case in Leopard and Snow Leopard but i just mounted a leopard image to create a new netrestore on my lion server. i was not able to boot any of my images created on Leopard or SL when running Lion Server. I assume i need to recreate the images on Lion. Right now my Lion server is using a leopard image as the source to create a netrestore i can push on the Lion server.

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Many intel MacBooks All imaged from a netinstall image created from an identical unit.
Leopard 10.5.7 OD server
After using System Preferences-> Sharing to rename the MacBooks
Upon trying to bind to OD, after the FIRST unit successfully bound, subsequent units give a warning “Computer record already exists, do you want to overwrite?”
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foilpan,
I'm a similar position... but just using a monolithic image build (the old fashion way... using DU/restore disk from an external drive). I'm in a serious time crunch and can't afford to spend any more time troubleshooting SIU, so I moved on to the old fashioned way.
Trouble is I cannot bind the client iMacs to the OD because a record already exists...
I tried your suggestion and got this error in Step 2:
SHS-C190-8230:~ sdk$ sudo -rf /var/db/krb5kdc
sudo: please use single character options
sudo: illegal option `-rf'
usage: sudo -K | -L | -V | -h | -k | -l | -v
usage: sudo [-HPSb] [-p prompt] [-u username|#uid]
{ -e file [...] | -i | -s | <command> }
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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I second that.
You even have advanced group handling to determin which users should be allowed to perform which tasks.
You can even image and restore Windows (both bootcamp on a mac AND pure PC:s)
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Thanks!

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From another thread:
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