My iphone is recognized as my wife's iphone by my computer. I believe this is preventing my wife from making necessary changes to her phone. Any thoughts on how to change the name on the computer?
A few weeks back, I connected my wife's iphone to my computer to download an update. Since that time, wheneve I connect my phone, the computer recognizes it as hers. ITunes correctly identifies the phone, but the computer does not. Is there any way to change the name with the computer. I canot locate any way to do this.
Thanks.
i suspect that this problem is under windows, like mine, the solution was go to start/run/regedit and then look for the name that you want to change, for example, if your wife's name is susan, use the search option in regedit to look for every possible susan word you find and then chage susan for pete, if pete is your name. Only the Susans related to the iphone name, dont change everything with susan in it, is easy to know wich one is related to the iphone name, don't worry. This procedure worked for me. good luck
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Just plugging it in doesn't change the name. If this was the first time you connected to this computer, you should have selected "Set up as New Device".
You will need to restore and since you no longer have a backup for this phone, you will lose your data.
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How can I change the name on my computer
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How do you change the name on your computer
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Here is the information I had found, however I have never had to try. You will have the passowrd too, so the above will help for that.
For Mac OS X v10.5 or later
Enable the root user.
Log in as root.
Navigate to the /Users folder.
Select the Home folder with the short name you want to change, and rename it just like you would rename any folder. Keep in mind that the shortname must be all lowercase, with no spaces, and only contain letters.
Use the Users & Groups pane (Accounts pane in Mac OS X v10.6.8 or earlier) in System Preferences to create a new user with the Account name or Short Name that you used in the previous step.
Click OK when "A folder in the Users folder already has the name 'account name'. Would you like to use that folder as the Home folder for this user account?" appears. Note: This will correct the ownership of all files in the Home folder, and avoid permissions issues with the contents.
Choose Log Out from the Apple menu.
Log in as the newly created user. You should be able to access all of your original files (on the desktop, in Documents, and in the other folders of this Home).
After verifying that your data is as expected, you can delete the original user account via the Users & Groups pane (Accounts pane in Mac OS X v10.6.8 or earlier).
Disable the root user.
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Changing the name of the computer
Hey all, where do you go to change the name of the computer? I want to know bc when i go to the system profiler theres a (2) behind the name of that i have chosen. I dont know where this (2) came from and i would like to change it.
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If the choices in the Sharing preferences are grayed out, you will need to click on the padlock in the lower left corner and enter your password.
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Strange message: the name of your computer ***** is already in use.....
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Okay, this keeps recurring and changing the name to 3,4,5, so on until I follow the instructions and rename it in Pref. This just started recently. It will behave itself after a full shutdown, reset pmu and zap the pram. But it won't last long.
Anybody have this happen?Greetings,
If the computer you speak of is in an Active Directory Domain, your problem could be there, if the computer has been removed at some point - the original name could still be in the database. Contact your IT folks and let them know of the duplicate name.
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This will clear the caches out and there will be noting erroneous to reference.
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I know why this happens - there are two network connections to the same network. One is wi-fi, the other is ethernet.
I can stop it happening by turning off wi-fi.
I'd rather keep both connections, though.
Is there a way of adjusting this so it stops doing it?
Should I be using the route command to set up different routes to the two links?
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The name of the computer have different meaning.
Normally, the computer name, or in this case 'hostname' refer to the RFC of DNS, Domain Name System IP Service, that resolving 'speaking names' to IP adresses. If your Computer is a Part of the global, Public Internet and so listed on a Public Domain Name Server, the function 'global hostnames' should bei used.
The local hostname refers to the apple Bonjour Service, to solve local network units. (http://support.apple.com/kb/ph3763)
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