One of the three Macs I've installed BOINC (Menubar 5.2.13) on doesn't show its name in the stats listings, either here or in the corresponding page for my Einstein@home account. Any ideas why? Before you ask, it certainly has been given a name--it's a file server in fact, so I see its name very frequently on our LAN.

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Does it give seemingly random gibberish instead? I have one installation (on DSL) where for whatever reason, instead of the computer name, it gets "ppp-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net", where the x's are the IP address for the DSL line. Somehow the DSL modem is intercepting the name and reporting this back to the servers instead - possibly a security measure? Interestingly, when I look at the website _from_ that computer, I see the name... automatically translated back? No idea.

It really doesn't matter; only you can see the names of your computers, and if you only have one that is "nameless", you know which one it is...

Does it give seemingly random gibberish instead?

No, it appears to be totally blank: if there's "gibberish" there it comprises only spaces, tabs, &c.

It really doesn't matter; only you can see the names of your computers, and if you only have one that is "nameless", you know which one it is...

True ,,, unless I get more of them. Just making sure nothing's drastically wrong. Thanks anyway!

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No, it appears to be totally blank: if there's "gibberish" there it comprises only spaces, tabs, &c.

One more thought; if you exit BOINC and open the file /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/client_state.xml with TextEdit, the fourth line is "domain_name". This is where the name is stored on the local computer to be sent to the sites; if that is blank for some reason, you can plug in a name (no spaces!) and it _should_ update the projects next time it contacts them...

hiya, i have the same symptom, with one of my machines here...

strangely enuf its the os x server machine that doesnt give its name to the boinc client, which i believe is the same as you ?

i imagine that it is cos server systems are much more selective and excact about what info it gives to what for who if you know what i mean

regards

adream

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One more thought; if you exit BOINC and open the file /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/client_state.xml with TextEdit, the fourth line is "domain_name". This is where the name is stored on the local computer to be sent to the sites; if that is blank for some reason, you can plug in a name (no spaces!) and it _should_ update the projects next time it contacts them...

Thanks; I haven't tried that yet--I will if I need to distinguish anonymous machines sometime in the future. (I'll probably be able to recognize their ID numbers pretty soon, anyway.) But I do have one more possibly relevant factoid to report: when BOINC launches on that machine, just a few lines into the log is a message saying something like "get_local_network_info(): gethostbyname failed".

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