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i have 14 imacs that i netboot. prior to tiger the netbooted computer names would be assigned noramlly say netboot001, netboot002 up to 14.
with tiger and the system image utility when i run a new netboot image sometimes the computer name is netboot001 etc and sometimes it replicates out say frederick charrons computer(1), frederick charrons computer(2).
i assume that there is a problem in the way the computer names are dished out to the netbooted imaces and there fore i assume there may be a potential for prblems with information back and forth to the server. can anyone help me with this and offer a solution that i may be missing.
i have been netbooting imaces since imacs and server were made available and this is the only time that i hav experienced this problem, ile with tiger server.
osx server Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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