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Skriven 2005-05-13 19:51:18 av Mike Luther (1:117/3001.0)
     Kommentar till text 60 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200)
Ärende: Resetting computer name?
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Thanks, Sean ..

 SD> SET HOSTNAME=CHEYENNE

But nope .. That's does work for things seen in some parts of the outside
world, but doesn't do what I want to do and, in some cases, is seen outside the
box..

To see what I am driving at try:

      1.) Log on to PEER.
      2.) Open the Connections folder.
      3.) Open the Network Services folder.
      4.) Open the Shared Resources and Network Connections folder.
      5.) Notice the 'Computer Name' in gray above the Description box.
      6.) It should open showing the 'Identity' tab.

That is the 'name' for this box, other than the description there.  If you
change the description of the box in the pane below it, which you can do, you
will see the 'identity' of the box show up differently in PEER connections in
places.  Depending on how you installed PEER at install time or via CID, you
may also see this in a different folder there called 'Sharing and Connecting'.

      7.) Close that folder, whichever you were in.
      8.) Open the LAN Server Administration folder.

Notice the PEER workstation folder you'll see there.

      9.) Click ONCE with the mouse on the PEER workstation folder.
     10.) Right click on it with the mouse to bring up the action pane.
     11.) Click on PROPERTIES.

There you will find the 'COMPUTER NAME' also in the gray panel thre.

You'll see that it is the same 'COMPUTER NAME' which is in the Shared Resources
and Network Connections folder or Sharing and Connecting folder, whichever.

You'll find, I think, that you cannot change that COMPUTER NAME in the field in
that gray box for the PEER workstaion.  You can change what it might read on
your desktop or whatever.  You can change the HOSTNAME in your CONFIG.SYS file.
 You can change the TCP/IP LAN settings folder to whatever name you wish in it.
 You can change your NETBIOS name in the MPTN folder.

But, in certain circumstances with PEER, from what I have seen of errors that
do show up on PEER LAN work, it *IS* possible to hit duplicate machine name
errors with more than one box of this same COMPUTER NAME,even though all the
boxes have different HOSTNAME, TCP/IP host name, and NETBIOS name.  That all
considering that the same 'name' is there for any given box on the PEER LAN.

        SO ... trying to correct this error ..

I can't change the COMPUTER NAME for the whole PEER system at all as far as I
can recall how to do here.   I think I used to know how to do this.

You can attempt to open the IBMPEERS folder.  Nothing I can do there will let
me work at this.  Nothing in the DOMAIN folder will be of use. If my memory is
right, the COMPUTER NAME is set in at the time you first install PEER either
during the initial install of WARP or MCPwhatever. Your iniitial setup which
carries the ADMIN/PASSWORD and GUEST with no password there, which is a
one-step deal with WARP 4 and a twice try this gambit in early MCP1/2 setups,
is where this name is originally set.

Foggy memory says long ago and far away, one of the .INI files for the
networking has this MACHINE NAME embedded in the file.  Foggy memory says that
you can take a text editor and one which does *NOT* leave any EOF character in
the file, and reset the name there.  But where is this file and can you really
do this?  Or where in the heck can you do this from any Desktop tool?

Inquiring mind wants to know.


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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