Netboot drives not showing up on post start up of client macs

Hello I just had a question regarding netboot my images works fine its just that when I boot up my client computers and hold the alt key to see available drives it does not show any of the netboot or netinstall drives. But when I open a clients computer and press N it boots up on the default image I have selected. is there any way that I can see the drives when I press the alt key when I startup a clients mac to select which netboot image to load? Forgot to mention when I startup a clients computer on there own hard drive and go to the system preferences and check the startup volumes all my volumes appear there no problem
thank you

See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1533
It does not do everything we might like but it is documented.

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