My mac mini shows the first octet of its ip address as the name of the machine in Finder

Now for something really strange. Up until about yesterday my Mac Mini showed the main disk in Finder as something beginning with James, maybe James Mac Mini. Now, today, it shows 192, which is the first octet of its IP address. The only change I've made today is to try and get Time Machine running again - or rather, to fix it so that I can see the time machine backups.
I see, incidentally, that the machine directory on Time Machine is also 192.
It may be worth my while mentioning that there is a strong hypothesis around that the NVRAM battery is dead or dying, but I haven't been in a hurry to change it as it's the last thing you take out of the case when you make any repairs. I'd be more willing if a thing like that sat a little nearer the memory chips.

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