Ran into this recently. Not sure if it is a new “feature” of Mac OS X 10.5.7, or just the way my new AT&T U-verse router works.
Say you happen to do a clean install of Mac OS X (or any OS really), then connect to your wireless network, then do all the system updates, then finally get around to doing your custom settings.
One of the first things I change is the host name. I prefer themed names around something cool, vs. generic names like admins-mac-mini.local.
I fired up the System Preferences, went to the Sharing preference pane and changed the Computer Name from Admin’s Mac Mini to meimi. Did a few other things, restarted, fired up terminal and got this beautiful prompt:
admins-mac-mini:~ admin$
Hrm….
Come to find out the DHCP on my network has cached the initial name of the computer and just doesn’t want to let it go. I am sure there is some way to force it to update, but here is another way.
- Open up Terminal
$ sudo vim /etc/hostsconfig- make sure you have the following line:
HOSTNAME="meimi.local"– change it to your hostname of choice and add .local to the end of it