Simple solution. The editable name under the Sharing pane of system preferences does double-duty. It is both the Network name AND the internal name. I changed this to Alan's iBook Tangerine on my Tangerine iBook G3, and the name shows up on the network and the computer itself.
On Dec 27, 6:16 pm, Dave <cubs1...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you go to YouTube and search the term "hack into emac" I'll bet you will > find something. The idea of hacking into imacs and emacs is fooling the > system into thinking that it's being set initially, and all the hacks > involve removing a line of code that confirms setup choices and so causes a > fresh setup - just as if it were new! You won't lose any software as you do > this... there is no downside. > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Bill Chapman <pagew...@interlog.com>wrote: > > > That happened to me when I won an eBay bid on a Powerbook last year. > > What I did was contact the seller through eBay and he told me how to > > change that... I forget what he told me, but it worked. > > > Ramon Pubill wrote: > > > I am posting on behalf of my 73 year old dad. He's beginning to get > > > "concerned" that his new eMac has "John Doe's eMac" when we use the > > > computer tab for finder windows. > > > > We just bought this eMac off eBay, it really doesn't belong to a guy > > > called John Doe. So I created a new account on my dad's name, hoping > > > it would fix that but No; the computer is still "John Doe's eMac" and > > > we want to be able to change it. I am only familiar with some > > > commands in Terminal so if it requires the use of such tool, I will > > > use it with a lot of caution and need to be walked through please. We > > > do not have OS disk at all, so if it requires a system re-install > > > (which I hope it doesn't) then we might be out of luck. > > > > I am sure other people who buy used Mac have seen this before. I had > > > an old G3 that was "Bob's G3" but it didn't bother me; so I left it > > > alone, used it for 2 years no problem. > > > > If it helps at all, our setup is: > > > > eMac 1.25Ghz > > > OS 10.4.11 > > > 512MB RAM > > > > Thanks!! > > > > On behalf of: > > > R. Pubill > > > -- > > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > > The list FAQ is athttp://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtmland our netiquette > > guide is athttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > > To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com > > To leave this group, send email to > > imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<imaclist%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
