Why does Mountian Lion keep changing my computer name?

We have 2 iMacs. Both on Cloud but not in the same building, One is running Lion and the other is running Mountain Lion. When I installed Mountain Lion, the second computer decided it needed to be known as iMac (2) but at least once a week it decides that iMac (2) is in use and needs to be changed to iMac (3). I have talked to support and we thought it was fixed but it is not and just happened again. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Claudia

Thanks, I just changed it to iMacMLion --- odd that the padlock was off as it had been on. Locked it and then it says that the computer will be referred to as iMacMLion.local on our network. Will report back in a week as solved. Appreciate your guidance. Claudia

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