Computer name on the net with immutable disk

[260370]

Hi all,

I am teacher in the school and I have PC with Ubuntu and VB with Windows 7 Pro. On my PC (teacher) is image in normal state and I can edit and prepare this image for use. Then I distribute image over a local network to computers in the class and mark images on each PC "immutable" for every user. This works great, the only issue is that the computer name is of course always the same, resulting in Windows error messages when run concurrently.

Is there a way to change the computer name during the boot process? Can I use a logon script which checks the computer name for a template name and in this case changes it to "myname" or something without reboots and start windows ? Also, local changes are discarded on each power-on-of.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you in advance
Radomir

[mpack]

The computer name is private data stored by the OS somewhere, which VBox knows nothing about. Perhaps a script could be used to change it, but that would be a feature of the guest OS, not VBox.