So you give the loaner the same name as the students' machine that he just
turned in?
Karl H. Hehr
Technology/Curriculum Director
South Hamilton CSD
www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us
515.827.5418 (W)
515.209.9767 (C)
515.827.5368 (F)
Luddite by Degrees
1) Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is
just a natural part of the way the world works.
2) Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting
and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3) Anything invented after you're 35 is again the natural order of things
--- Douglas Adams
On Sep 3, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Tim Limbert wrote:
> Anyone with an Apple network:
>
> I'm having a problem I haven't had for the last two years. Here's the
> scenario:
>
> I image up a laptop for a kid, enter his machine record (Ethernet MAC
> address) into WGM and put that computer into the proper management groups.
> Everything works dandy, laptop getting proper management, ARD interacting
> properly with the laptop.
> Then, something goes wrong with that laptop, and I need to give him a loaner.
> I remove the computer record for the old laptop from WGM, create a new one
> for the new machine, put it in the proper management groups, and image a new
> machine for him.
> Now, although the kid can login and sync, and management is working fine, ARD
> refuses to interact with the new laptop at all. It shows up in the list
> under Scanner, but if I double-click on it, absolutely nothing happens.
> Sometimes the laptop shows as offline with a black icon, even though it's
> running and on the network. If I do a Get Info on that laptop, there is no
> Login and Password shown in the Info screen.
>
> The two laptops had the exact same image, both deployed with Casper. This
> has happened in every case where a person has had to switch laptops. After
> the switch, I can't access the machine through ARD. Something about DNS I
> don't understand, perhaps?
>
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