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Terminal Mystery

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lankox

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The name of my Macbook pro is Lank Ox and short name is loxendine. In terminal the prompt states "david-laptop:~ loxendine$" ?

1: I'm pretty sure that it has not always said that. I have owned the MBP for 2 months. Can some program cause this?

2. I bought new, sealed off of ebay. Does this mean that it wasn't new?

3. How do I change it?

Thanks for all of your help!
 
lankox said:
The name of my Macbook pro is Lank Ox and short name is loxendine. In terminal the prompt states "david-laptop:~ loxendine$" ?

1: I'm pretty sure that it has not always said that. I have owned the MBP for 2 months. Can some program cause this?

2. I bought new, sealed off of ebay. Does this mean that it wasn't new?

3. How do I change it?

Thanks for all of your help!
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Is your name David? Did you go through the set up when you first booted the computer? If you answer no to either or both, then it's not new.

As with changing it, go to System Preferences-->Sharing and change the computer name.

As with the Terminal, sometimes will show your hostname if you connected online recently.
 
System Preferences-->Sharing shows "Lank Ox's MBP". Is there any other place this info is kept? My name is not David. Like I said above, there is no way that I have missed this for 2 months. I have used Terminal many times. Conspiracy? Possessed? :eek:
 
Could this be connected to the recent Firmware update I installed yesterday?
 
I appreciate all of the responses. It seems that when you're connected to the internet, the value for HostName is overridden by information from your ISP, which assigns you a host name. When I disconnect from the network, everything is well but when I reconnect the name changes (this time to something different). Thanks again for the help!!
 
lankox said:
I appreciate all of the responses. It seems that when you're connected to the internet, the value for HostName is overridden by information from your ISP, which assigns you a host name. When I disconnect from the network, everything is well but when I reconnect the name changes (this time to something different). Thanks again for the help!!
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Correct... Specifically it is overwritten by what is being supplied by DHCP which usually pulls it from DNS.
 
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