[Samba] Renaming a computer on a Samba domain

[Walter Mautner]

Am Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 20:24:25 schrieb Jason Somers:
> Clients are NFP, and have about 100 workstations. Once or twice a year,
> they get grants for upwards of 10 new systems. These systems get
> distributed to those with the most need, and in turn, their systems get
> passed to whomever has computers less powerful than those.  System names
> reflect different departments and subdepartments, so if you move a
> computer anywhere, its name must change.
> 
> Make sense?
> 
Changing policy makes even more sense. Like here, our main office is getting 
crowded while one or the other branch office dies due to financial cuts.
That makes for a lot of internal moves.
While we had our client computers named that way as well, a while ago,
we soon faced the nightmare (it's not only the samba/ldap, but other servers 
like the av management server, policy-driven services and whatever) of having
to change a lot of data and database entries on every move.
Now, we just number the boxen (try to change to numbers representing the SAP-
generated 6-digit asset ids) and keep the location and similar info in a 
single database asset database.