> >As another point, I have five Athlon/850 machines in the computer lab at
> >college; so I've installed mprime in five separate directories on the
shared
> >file space, and let it allocate its own computer names. Yesterday I got
fed
> >up with trying to remember that CA1C7B916 was actually the machine called
> >ouzo, so I stopped mprime on each machine, edited local.ini to change the
> >name, and restarted mprime. Has this confused everything horribly?
>
> Possibly, yes -- but I don't think it's critical, as long as you didn't
> switch usernames, PrimeNet should still accept the result. However, the
> right thing to do this is (as far as I know) simply to edit the computer
> information from the mprime menu (mprime -m) -- if you do that, mprime
> will (again, as far as I know :-) ) tell the PrimeNet server about the
> change.
I've changed my computer names before just by editing the local.ini file.
No problems... next time it updates the info on the server or checks in
results, it'll reflect the changed name. And even if it didn't, no big deal
anyway.
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