I have a question concerning microsoft's setupmgr.exe tool. I used it to precreate my winnt.sif file. As an option i chose to import computernames from a textfile which results in the following entries in winnt.sif

[UserData]
    ProductKey=....................
    FullName="The Solar System"
    OrgName="Solaris"
    ComputerName=*

[SetupMgr]
    ComputerName0=Mercury
    ComputerName1=Venus
    ComputerName2=Earth
    ComputerName3=Moon
    ComputerName4=Mars
    ComputerName5=Phobos

and a second file called winnt.udb:

;SetupMgrTag
[UniqueIds]
    Mercury=UserData
    Venus=UserData
    Earth=UserData
    Moon=UserData
    Mars=UserData
    Phobos=UserData

[Mercury:UserData]
    ComputerName=Mercury

[Venus:UserData]
    ComputerName=Venus

[Earth:UserData]
    ComputerName=Earth

[Moon:UserData]
    ComputerName=Moon

[Mars:UserData]
    ComputerName=Mars

[Phobos:UserData]
    ComputerName=Phobos

Trying to install on a VM the generated Computername always looks the way we know: SOLARIS-1234567 ... so it's autogenerated from the OrgName in winnt.sif

So how does this thing with multiple computernames work. Is it, that this only works for installations from a remote computer's network share but not from CD ?

This may be a stupid question but what I'm reading from this post is that with VM Ware for instance if my Org name is "MyCompany" VM will generate the computer name as "MyCompany-"bla bla bla

Can anyone comment on this?

Thanks in advanced

I answered a very similiar question over here

Try this, its a program I made and I hope it helps.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=29088