[X4U] Network locations question

[Paul]

On 19 Oct 2005, at 17:40, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 10/19/05, Paul <pwblackb at uc.cl> wrote:
>
>>
>> The problem is that I am not allowed to set my iBook's name in the
>> Sharing pane as I want it: kasumi.local instead of kasumi-2.local,
>> which I am forced to do, since the prefs pane tells me that there is
>> another computer using the name kasumi.local on the network. What
>> might I be missing here? The eMac is obviously not called kasumi.
>>
>
> Try this. Select Finder->Go->Connect to Server and delete all server
> entries. Then, try resetting the computer's name via the Sharing  
> prefpane.


Unfortunately that did not work. Perhaps it is the eMac, which is  
always on that is reminding my iBook that there is or was a  
kasumi.local on the LAN. But that would apply to kasumi-2.local as  
well, ad infinitum. I wonder what's wrong.

Paul