Hard Drive and Computer Name changes on Network

We have 3 computers in our office: One G4 and two G5 (one with Panther and one with Leopard).
There was confusion on the network because all the drive where called « HD MacIntosh ».
I changed the names of all the computers in SHARING, I manually renamed all the hard drives by selecting the text under the hard drive icons:
The old G4 has 2 hard drives (New G4, Old G4) and the two other computers' hard drives are called G5 Carole and G5 Stephen.
Still, when I connect from one computer to another I STILL SEE « HD MACINTOSH » where I should see the new name I gave!!!
What I am doing wrong?

Hi pitou-
Did you try rebooting everything including network hardware?
Luck-
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