Airport express

[Lloyd White]

Hi everyone,

Does it matter how I place my airport express on the shelf? Better to stand
it up or lie down on its side etc. I currently have it on its side with the
green light facing me two metres up the wall, but am getting minimum
strength in the front rooms.

ALSO

If I get another airport express and plug it into a power point within range
of the first one, will it extend the range without doing anything else?

Thanks,

Lloyd 





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Re: Lion Clean Install-advice please

[Peter Sealy]

Carlo, many thanks. Will go through this carefully.


Cheers




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Cyberduck woes

[Steven Knowles]

Running Cyberduck 4.1 on Lion on MBP 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.

For the past week or two, I haven't been able to access the server directories 
I've always accessed in the past - via SFTP, via bookmarks - nothing has 
changed.

Yet I installed Cyberduck on a an iMac I have, duplicated the bookmarks 
(manually) and accesses fine.

I've compared about 10 times now the Cyberduck bookmark settings on my MBP vs 
iMac, both the same. Using Cyberduck on the iMac, I've disconnected from the 
server and quit Cyberduck in case there was an issue with two clients accessing 
server at same time, or the iMac connection blocking out the MBP connection. 
Makes no diff.

I've reinstalled Cyberduck on the MBP. There are no password error messages. 
When I access via the bookmark, the status bar shows "Opening SFTP connection 
to " a green dot appears next to the bookmark details, and there 
it sits spinning its wheels. The Activity window shows "Mounting ". And 
there things sit forever.

It used to be that you'd trash a preference file for things like this - is 
there any similar fix I should try these days? Any clues as to the cause of 
Cyberduck working on one Mac and not another?!

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gmail downloads to mail

[James / Hans Kunz]

hello guys
yesterday i tried to establish an account in mail (on a g5 system) to check for 
new mail in the gmail aside of the existing iinet account
with the gmail web access i tested the username/email adress & the password 
which all appeared ok, in mail i added pop.gmail.com as server info (for mail 
in)
when i trigger the "new mail" command you see a wheel spinning for a while then 
it stops w/o error message
the iinet mails arrive ok
what i'm missing??
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Re: Lion Clean Install-advice please

[cm]

Hi Wammuggers,

I just wanted clear up possible confusion for anyone else who happens to 
casually read this thread and might get the impression that the upgrade to OS X 
10.7 Lion is a difficult move. The standard upgrade to OS X 10.7 Lion is dead 
easy and works very well for most situation. Just follow a slightly modified 
version of Ronni's normal steps for an upgrade:

1. Download the Lion OS X 10.7 upgrade app from the Mac App Store.
2. Backup your system -- use Time Machine and / or a bootable clone to an 
external disk.
3. Repair permissions before the upgrade.
4. Turn off Time Machine in System Preferences.
5. Unmount and disconnect any external USB and firewire drives.
6. Run the Lion OS X 10.7 upgrade app and apply it to your OS X10.6 (or 
earlier) install.
7. Repair permissions again.
8. Run Software Update to get any upgrades to apps or point releases of the 
operating system.
9. Reconnect your backup drive.
10. Turn on Time Machine in System Preferences and complete a backup. 
(Optionally make another clone to a different external drive -- I did).

And that's it!

If as in Peter's case you want to trim down your apps you can do this before or 
after the upgrade -- just remember to get a backup before you start deleting 
stuff incase you go one step to far. :-) Peter on rethinking your situation, I 
think this would be the easiest path for you as well.

You might also take the opportunity do go through your data files, movies, 
photos and songs and delete duplicates and unwanted relics.

Cheers,
Carlo

With thanks to Ronni who's canonical upgrade steps I paraphrased above.


On 2011-08-12, at 21:35, cm wrote:

> Hi again Peter,
> 
> Sorry for the delay, but here is a fuller account of some options for you...
> 
> I just now reread your original post of this thread. You have a thorough 
> backup regimen and are therefore in an excellent position to get exactly the 
> configuration you want. You could if you like buy Lion now and do some 
> experimenting to see the path you would like to take. You will get Lion 
> 10.7.2 as a free update of the current version in any case.
> 
> Here is how you can go about with a few experiments. It is similar to the 
> path suggested earlier for an upgrade except that you do it to an external 
> drive rather than your internal drive. 
> 
> 1) Go to the Mac App Store and buy a copy of OS X 10.7 Lion. If it prompts 
> you to upgrade just hit Cancel and close the app.
> 2) At this point, backup you system to an eternal drive, put it aside ,and 
> leave it untouched from here on. Also make sure your Time Machine backup is 
> up to date.
> 
> You are unlikely to need to use either backup but the very reason we make 
> backups is to cover unlikely or unexpected situation -- or dare I say it, 
> absolute blunders. :-)
> 
> 
> Experiment one (easy): Direct upgrade keeping all apps and settings. I know 
> you said you would like to start afresh, but this is by far the option that 
> entails the least amount of work. Give it a try and if you are happy with the 
> result there is no need to go further
> 
> 1) Using Super Duper make a clone of you OS X 10.6 system to an external 
> drive. (A different drive to you safe backup mentioned above)
> 2) Run the OS X 10.7 Lion app and tell it to install to the external drive.
> 
> This will upgrade you 10.6 installation to 10.7. You can then boot to the 
> external drive by rebooting with the option key held down. Try out Lion and 
> see what you think.
> 
> Experiment two (medium difficulty): Clean install of Lion using Migration 
> Assistant.
> 1) Attach a freshly formatted or freshly erased external drive. You can reuse 
> the drive from experiment one -- just run Disk Utility and erase its contents.
> 2) Run the OS X 10.7 Lion app and tell it to install to the external drive. 
> During the install the migration assistant will ask you if you want to port 
> data and apps from another Mac or a Windows PC.
> 
> Have a look at Daniel's post earlier in this thread. If you want to reinstall 
> only all you apps an leave out the cruft, port across only your email and 
> data. You will then have a clean Lion install with all your data but no apps.
> 
> This is the option I took. A word of warning, your iLife Apps are not ported 
> across. You will need either to do without them or purchase them from the Mac 
> App Store. If you haver purchased a new Mac that is already running Lion, the 
> purchase include the purchase of the iLife Apps from the App Store and you 
> can thus re-download them for free to you current computer.
> 
> Experiment three (hard): Clean install of Lion with no migration of data or 
> apps
> 
> Proceed as in experiment two but when given the option to migrate data or 
> apps select "not now".
> 
> This gives you a bare Lion install with no trace of your current data or 
> apps. You need to port across you contacts, calendars, email settings, Safari 
> bookmarks, iTunes music, and word processing files.
> 
> ---

Re: Naming anomaly

[Severin Crisp]

Thanks, Neil, Daniel, Ronni.  I have done 1 - 6 as per Ronni, all correct 
anyway.  Will do the terminal bit tomorrow
Severin

On 12/08/2011, at 10:07 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

> Hi Severin,
> 
> Thanks Daniel for helping out knowing I'm away for the week- end without my 
> computer.;-)
> I've quickly searched the archives for my previous post to WAMUG re changing 
> the computer name.
> This is how I have always changed my computer name in Snow Leopard.
> 
> 1. Open "System Preferences" from the Apple menu or the dock and click on 
> "Network".
> 
> 2. Click the "Advanced" button to access the WINS settings for the Mac. 
> 
> 3. Click on the WINS section of the advanced network preferences and type in 
> the "NetBIOS Name" (ie. the new Mac computer name) and "Workgroup" (this 
> should 
> match the workgroup name specified on Windows computers on your network.) 
> 
> 4. Click the "OK" button to save the advanced settings and then the "Apply" 
> button to save the network settings.
> 
> 5. Return to the "System Preferences" window and click on "Sharing".
> 
> 6. Type in the new Mac computer name in the "Computer Name" text field at the 
> top of the window. 
> If sharing is turned on the text describing the type of sharing should 
> reflect your newly changed name.
> 
> 7.  Change hostname via the terminal.
> 
> I found at this point that my sharing name and my terminal prompt were stuck 
> using my old computer name. I ultimately determined this was due to the name 
> being cached on the network. 
> In order to fix this I began by changing my hostname via the terminal.
> 
> Open the "Terminal" application and enter in the command: 
> sudo scutil --set HostName [NewMacComputerName]
> 
> 8. Next flush the DNS cache on the Mac by entering the command: dscacheutil 
> -flushcache
> 
> 9. Finally reboot the Mac and if your home router provides DNS services like 
> mine does reboot that as well.
> Severin, I did put together a PDF with screenshots if you find you need it, 
> email me 
> ‘Offlist’ & when i get back to my computer I’ll send it to you.
> 
>  
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> Sent from Ronni's iPad
> 
> On 12/08/2011, at 7:21 PM, Daniel Kerr  wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi Severin
>> 
>> Have a look at the following for System Preferences.
>> Go to System Preferences - Sharing.
>> Beside Computer Name: you're probably got it set to SevsiMac. Underneath
>> that it says " Computers on your local network can access your computer at:
>> x.local". Does that have the part sev_(sevsg5.local)?
>> If so, you can change it two ways.
>> Click beside where it says your Computer Name (eg SevsiMac) and just hit
>> Return on the keboard. If that doesn't change it below, then click on
>> "Edit..."
>> Where it says "Local Hostname:" change that to SevsiMac and click OK,
>> 
>> That should then have then both the same (you may need to do a restart).
>> 
>> That's the "Easiest" way if it does fix it.
>> If not, report back as Ronni did a good post on it quite a while ago, so
>> I'll find it and repost that for you.
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/8/11 5:06 PM, "Severin Crisp"  wrote:
>> 
>>> I recently moved from a G5 to an iMac and migrated everything to the new
>>> machine, easily, happily and successfully.   It came up as an administrator
>>> account which I retained and use.  One annoying glitch remains.  In the
>>> sidebar under Shared the iMac appears with the name of the previous machine
>>> retained,  sev_(sevsg5.local).  In the Sharing pane I have set the name as
>>> SevsiMac but the old name persists.  How do I fix this.  I am wondering if I
>>> need to create a new account to get around this, or if that will work!
>>> Severin Crisp.  
>>> 
>>>   Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
>>>   15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
>>>Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>>>email  mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
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Re: Naming anomaly

[Daniel Kerr]

No worries Ronni. Now get off your iPad!! :oP

I must be lucky, cause I've never had to do any of that in changing all my
computers for the last,..um I don't know,..5 years,..lol ;o)
Maybe I'm lucky. ;o)

But yes,.that was the post.

Now, as I said before,..get off your iPad Ronni before I remotely disconnect
it :o) (enjoy your weekend).

Kind regards
Daniel


On 12/8/11 10:07 PM, "Ronda Brown"  wrote:

> Hi Severin,
> 
> Thanks Daniel for helping out knowing I'm away for the week- end without my
> computer.;-)
> I've quickly searched the archives for my previous post to WAMUG re changing
> the computer name.
> This is how I have always changed my computer name in Snow Leopard.
> 
> 1. Open "System Preferences" from the Apple menu or the dock and click on
> "Network".
> 
> 2. Click the "Advanced" button to access the WINS settings for the Mac.
> 
> 3. Click on the WINS section of the advanced network preferences and type in
> the "NetBIOS Name" (ie. the new Mac computer name) and "Workgroup" (this
> should 
> match the workgroup name specified on Windows computers on your network.)
> 
> 4. Click the "OK" button to save the advanced settings and then the "Apply"
> button to save the network settings.
> 
> 5. Return to the "System Preferences" window and click on "Sharing".
> 
> 6. Type in the new Mac computer name in the "Computer Name" text field at the
> top of the window.
> If sharing is turned on the text describing the type of sharing should
> reflect your newly changed name.
> 
> 7.  Change hostname via the terminal.
> 
> I found at this point that my sharing name and my terminal prompt were stuck
> using my old computer name. I ultimately determined this was due to the name
> being cached on the network.
> In order to fix this I began by changing my hostname via the terminal.
> 
> Open the "Terminal" application and enter in the command:
> sudo scutil --set HostName [NewMacComputerName]
> 
> 8. Next flush the DNS cache on the Mac by entering the command: dscacheutil
> -flushcache
> 
> 9. Finally reboot the Mac and if your home router provides DNS services like
> mine does reboot that as well.
> Severin, I did put together a PDF with screenshots if you find you need it,
> email me 
> ŒOfflist¹ & when i get back to my computer I¹ll send it to you.
> 
>  
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> Sent from Ronni's iPad
> 
> On 12/08/2011, at 7:21 PM, Daniel Kerr  wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi Severin
>> 
>> Have a look at the following for System Preferences.
>> Go to System Preferences - Sharing.
>> Beside Computer Name: you're probably got it set to SevsiMac. Underneath
>> that it says " Computers on your local network can access your computer at:
>> x.local". Does that have the part sev_(sevsg5.local)?
>> If so, you can change it two ways.
>> Click beside where it says your Computer Name (eg SevsiMac) and just hit
>> Return on the keboard. If that doesn't change it below, then click on
>> "Edit..."
>> Where it says "Local Hostname:" change that to SevsiMac and click OK,
>> 
>> That should then have then both the same (you may need to do a restart).
>> 
>> That's the "Easiest" way if it does fix it.
>> If not, report back as Ronni did a good post on it quite a while ago, so
>> I'll find it and repost that for you.
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/8/11 5:06 PM, "Severin Crisp"  wrote:
>> 
>>> I recently moved from a G5 to an iMac and migrated everything to the new
>>> machine, easily, happily and successfully.   It came up as an administrator
>>> account which I retained and use.  One annoying glitch remains.  In the
>>> sidebar under Shared the iMac appears with the name of the previous machine
>>> retained,  sev_(sevsg5.local).  In the Sharing pane I have set the name as
>>> SevsiMac but the old name persists.  How do I fix this.  I am wondering if I
>>> need to create a new account to get around this, or if that will work!
>>> Severin Crisp. 
>>> 
>>>   Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
>>>   15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
>>>Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>>>email  mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> Phone: 0414 795 960
>> Email: 
>> Web:   
>> 
>> 
>> **For everything Macintosh**
>> 
>> 
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Re: Naming anomaly

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Severin,

Thanks Daniel for helping out knowing I'm away for the week- end without my 
computer.;-)
I've quickly searched the archives for my previous post to WAMUG re changing 
the computer name.
This is how I have always changed my computer name in Snow Leopard.

1. Open "System Preferences" from the Apple menu or the dock and click on 
"Network".

2. Click the "Advanced" button to access the WINS settings for the Mac. 

3. Click on the WINS section of the advanced network preferences and type in 
the "NetBIOS Name" (ie. the new Mac computer name) and "Workgroup" (this should 
match the workgroup name specified on Windows computers on your network.) 

4. Click the "OK" button to save the advanced settings and then the "Apply" 
button to save the network settings.

5. Return to the "System Preferences" window and click on "Sharing".

6. Type in the new Mac computer name in the "Computer Name" text field at the 
top of the window. 
If sharing is turned on the text describing the type of sharing should 
reflect your newly changed name.

7.  Change hostname via the terminal.

I found at this point that my sharing name and my terminal prompt were stuck 
using my old computer name. I ultimately determined this was due to the name 
being cached on the network. 
In order to fix this I began by changing my hostname via the terminal.

Open the "Terminal" application and enter in the command: 
sudo scutil --set HostName [NewMacComputerName]

8. Next flush the DNS cache on the Mac by entering the command: dscacheutil 
-flushcache

9. Finally reboot the Mac and if your home router provides DNS services like 
mine does reboot that as well.
Severin, I did put together a PDF with screenshots if you find you need it, 
email me 
‘Offlist’ & when i get back to my computer I’ll send it to you.

 
Cheers,
Ronni

Sent from Ronni's iPad

On 12/08/2011, at 7:21 PM, Daniel Kerr  wrote:

> 
> Hi Severin
> 
> Have a look at the following for System Preferences.
> Go to System Preferences - Sharing.
> Beside Computer Name: you're probably got it set to SevsiMac. Underneath
> that it says " Computers on your local network can access your computer at:
> x.local". Does that have the part sev_(sevsg5.local)?
> If so, you can change it two ways.
> Click beside where it says your Computer Name (eg SevsiMac) and just hit
> Return on the keboard. If that doesn't change it below, then click on
> "Edit..."
> Where it says "Local Hostname:" change that to SevsiMac and click OK,
> 
> That should then have then both the same (you may need to do a restart).
> 
> That's the "Easiest" way if it does fix it.
> If not, report back as Ronni did a good post on it quite a while ago, so
> I'll find it and repost that for you.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Kind regards
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On 12/8/11 5:06 PM, "Severin Crisp"  wrote:
> 
>> I recently moved from a G5 to an iMac and migrated everything to the new
>> machine, easily, happily and successfully.   It came up as an administrator
>> account which I retained and use.  One annoying glitch remains.  In the
>> sidebar under Shared the iMac appears with the name of the previous machine
>> retained,  sev_(sevsg5.local).  In the Sharing pane I have set the name as
>> SevsiMac but the old name persists.  How do I fix this.  I am wondering if I
>> need to create a new account to get around this, or if that will work!
>> Severin Crisp.  
>> 
>>   Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
>>   15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
>>Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
>>email  mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> Web:   
> 
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[cm]

Hi again Peter,

Sorry for the delay, but here is a fuller account of some options for you...

I just now reread your original post of this thread. You have a thorough backup 
regimen and are therefore in an excellent position to get exactly the 
configuration you want. You could if you like buy Lion now and do some 
experimenting to see the path you would like to take. You will get Lion 10.7.2 
as a free update of the current version in any case.

Here is how you can go about with a few experiments. It is similar to the path 
suggested earlier for an upgrade except that you do it to an external drive 
rather than your internal drive. 

1) Go to the Mac App Store and buy a copy of OS X 10.7 Lion. If it prompts you 
to upgrade just hit Cancel and close the app.
2) At this point, backup you system to an eternal drive, put it aside ,and 
leave it untouched from here on. Also make sure your Time Machine backup is up 
to date.

You are unlikely to need to use either backup but the very reason we make 
backups is to cover unlikely or unexpected situation -- or dare I say it, 
absolute blunders. :-)


Experiment one (easy): Direct upgrade keeping all apps and settings. I know you 
said you would like to start afresh, but this is by far the option that entails 
the least amount of work. Give it a try and if you are happy with the result 
there is no need to go further

1) Using Super Duper make a clone of you OS X 10.6 system to an external drive. 
(A different drive to you safe backup mentioned above)
2) Run the OS X 10.7 Lion app and tell it to install to the external drive.

This will upgrade you 10.6 installation to 10.7. You can then boot to the 
external drive by rebooting with the option key held down. Try out Lion and see 
what you think.

Experiment two (medium difficulty): Clean install of Lion using Migration 
Assistant.
1) Attach a freshly formatted or freshly erased external drive. You can reuse 
the drive from experiment one -- just run Disk Utility and erase its contents.
2) Run the OS X 10.7 Lion app and tell it to install to the external drive. 
During the install the migration assistant will ask you if you want to port 
data and apps from another Mac or a Windows PC.

Have a look at Daniel's post earlier in this thread. If you want to reinstall 
only all you apps an leave out the cruft, port across only your email and data. 
You will then have a clean Lion install with all your data but no apps.

This is the option I took. A word of warning, your iLife Apps are not ported 
across. You will need either to do without them or purchase them from the Mac 
App Store. If you haver purchased a new Mac that is already running Lion, the 
purchase include the purchase of the iLife Apps from the App Store and you can 
thus re-download them for free to you current computer.

Experiment three (hard): Clean install of Lion with no migration of data or apps

Proceed as in experiment two but when given the option to migrate data or apps 
select "not now".

This gives you a bare Lion install with no trace of your current data or apps. 
You need to port across you contacts, calendars, email settings, Safari 
bookmarks, iTunes music, and word processing files.

--- end of experiments ---

Believe it or not, once iCloud is introduced later this year, experiment three 
will also be easy. We will be able to store our contacts, and calendars to the 
cloud. Also you will be able to freshly download all of you iTunes purchase -- 
one can already re-download apps purchased from the Mac App Store. Finally from 
within Apples iWork sweet (and from any other app that chooses to take 
advantage of iCloud like Microsoft Office) you can choose to save any document 
in iCloud and thus access it from any computer logged on with your Apple ID.

So you have many options to try out if you choose. If you are overwhelmed with 
choice just go for experiment two. :-)

Cheers,
Carlo






On 2011-08-12, at 07:18, Peter Sealy wrote:

> Thanks Daniel and Carlo. Some food for thought there. I notice from the web 
> that Lion 10.7.2 is in beta testing so I think I shall wait for that to come 
> on stream before committing.
> 
> Carlo are you yet able to add to your post.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/08/2011, at 4:53 PM, Peter Sealy wrote:
> 
>> I would much appreciate some advice on my proposal to clean install Lion.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Peter Sealy
> Thurgoona AUSTRALIA
> 
> After you have entered the amount ignoring the decimal point press 'hash' to 
> order your marijuana.
> 
> 
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[Daniel Kerr]

Hi Severin

Have a look at the following for System Preferences.
Go to System Preferences - Sharing.
Beside Computer Name: you're probably got it set to SevsiMac. Underneath
that it says " Computers on your local network can access your computer at:
x.local". Does that have the part sev_(sevsg5.local)?
If so, you can change it two ways.
Click beside where it says your Computer Name (eg SevsiMac) and just hit
Return on the keboard. If that doesn't change it below, then click on
"Edit..."
Where it says "Local Hostname:" change that to SevsiMac and click OK,

That should then have then both the same (you may need to do a restart).

That's the "Easiest" way if it does fix it.
If not, report back as Ronni did a good post on it quite a while ago, so
I'll find it and repost that for you.

Hope that helps.

Kind regards
Daniel


On 12/8/11 5:06 PM, "Severin Crisp"  wrote:

> I recently moved from a G5 to an iMac and migrated everything to the new
> machine, easily, happily and successfully.   It came up as an administrator
> account which I retained and use.  One annoying glitch remains.  In the
> sidebar under Shared the iMac appears with the name of the previous machine
> retained,  sev_(sevsg5.local).  In the Sharing pane I have set the name as
> SevsiMac but the old name persists.  How do I fix this.  I am wondering if I
> need to create a new account to get around this, or if that will work!
> Severin Crisp.  
> 
>Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
>15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
> Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
> email  mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Naming anomaly

[Neil Houghton]

Hi Severin,

It shouldn¹t be down to the user account name ­ for example my iMac has 3
accounts on it but it always shows up with the computer name at the top
level ­ the user names come up when you want to log in and then when you
want to access specific areas on the machine.

Just to clarify, when you say ³In the sidebar under Shared the iMac appears
with the name of the previous machine retained,  sev_(sevsg5.local).² then
that would be when browsing the network from another computer, yes? When you
are actually on the iMac and it shows up on the sidebar under ³devices²
(rather than ³shared²) does it correctly list as ³SevsiMac²?

A couple of thoughts:

Have you tried browsing your network (from another computer, obviously)
using the finder/go/connect to server/browse ­ what name does the iMac show
up as.

In the System Preferences, Network pane, when you click on advanced and then
the WINS tab, what shows up under the NetBIOS Name, the new name or the old
name.

That¹s all that comes to mind - I¹m not really that practiced with
network/sharing set-ups so others much more experienced than I may have
better ideas!


Cheers



Neil
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on 12/8/11 5:06 PM, Severin Crisp at sevcr...@westnet.com.au wrote:

> I recently moved from a G5 to an iMac and migrated everything to the new
> machine, easily, happily and successfully.   It came up as an administrator
> account which I retained and use.  One annoying glitch remains.  In the
> sidebar under Shared the iMac appears with the name of the previous machine
> retained,  sev_(sevsg5.local).  In the Sharing pane I have set the name as
> SevsiMac but the old name persists.  How do I fix this.  I am wondering if I
> need to create a new account to get around this, or if that will work!
> Severin Crisp.  
> 
> 
>Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
> 
>15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
> 
> Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
> 
> email  mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Naming anomaly

[Severin Crisp]

I recently moved from a G5 to an iMac and migrated everything to the new 
machine, easily, happily and successfully.   It came up as an administrator 
account which I retained and use.  One annoying glitch remains.  In the sidebar 
under Shared the iMac appears with the name of the previous machine retained,  
sev_(sevsg5.local).  In the Sharing pane I have set the name as SevsiMac but 
the old name persists.  How do I fix this.  I am wondering if I need to create 
a new account to get around this, or if that will work!  
Severin Crisp.  

   Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP
   15 Thomas St, Mount Clarence, Albany, 6330, Western Australia.
Phone  (08) 9842 1950   (Int'l +61 8 9842 1950)
email  mailto:sevcr...@westnet.com.au  






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