While adding a new iMac G5 to the network (XServe G5, XServe RAID, Appleshare) i encountered a strange problem.
I usually just use the "Connect to Server" feature, punch in the addresses for the three servers the user needs to connect to, connect to each, mount the shares, add them to the startup items and call it good.
This time, I hit the browse button on a whim. and I saw all of the usual suspects, plus one of salespeople's new laptop. I clicked on my XServe and mounted the share and noticed it was in all CAPS. This is not usual, so I just unmounted it, punched in the IP address, connected up and everythign was normal.
When I punched in the next IP address for our Win2K3 server, I got the afp://10.1.1.3 "could not connect to the server because the name or password is not correct" - I have never seen this before.
So i dropped into terminal and it said:
burnslaptop:~ steve$
burnslaptop is the salespersons laptop and steve is the name of the users imac G5
I have worked around this by shutting down the laptop and getting my shares into the startup items. Now that the laptop is back on, if I go into terminal, it says this again:
burnslaptop:~ steve$
What it should be saying is:
steves-computer:~ steve$
(where steves-computer is the name of my the users machine)
I am feeling like a total moron here. Everything looks fine in the network control panel - what am I missing?
UPDATE: If I manually configure my network settings, everything works as expected. When I switch back to DHCP, the problem re-appears.
Help is GREATLY appreciated!
Eric