Host name issues

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am getting bogged down with this highly irritating problem, and I wondered if any of you encountered it or knew of how to get round it:

Basically, all clean installs on new macs that I create (from my netrestore image) are resulting in the macs picking up random DNS computer names from AD.
Now this I wouldn’t usually care about, but it’s causing print issues, as basically when certain machines with particular AD computer names try and print, the printer is basically coming back and saying: “who the hell are you”? and not printing.
All machines are set up to print directly via IP.

There appears to be two computer names: The mac computer name: “Mac User’s Computer” and then the Windows DNS computer name – for example, activate windows file sharing, then see what it says:

Windows users can access your computer at \\randomcomputername\share

WHY are the macs picking random AD computer names for their DNS computer name?
How do you change the DNS/(NetBIOS?) computer name of the mac, and stop it picking up new names on restart?
This is proving to be a serious issue for me.
Is it something to do with my netrestore images do you think?

By the way, by DNS name – I mean “Host Name”.
In ARD for example, I can see the mac computer name, and then the “host name” on the right.

Any help would be much appreciated…

TIA!

PB

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