[missing-sync-pocketpc-talk] Found an interesting problem

[Syd]

My HOSTNAME was manually set in the hostconfig file to something else 
because you needed to hack the name in to get sendmail working in 
10.1.x and 10.2.x
I didn't try setting the in the control panel, and didn't notice what 
it was.
I think if the setting is not -AUTOMATIC-, the name you set in 
hostconfig is used, otherwise the control panel name is used.

The weird thing is that MS worked fine on my 10.2.8 machine with a 
manually set HOSTNAME, but it's broken in Panther.

Remember you need to be root or sudo to change the hostconfig file.

On 19/11/2003, at 11:29 AM, Ken Freeman wrote:

> Great! I'm going to share this same news with the others who were 
> having this problem that may not be on the list. I'm not sure all 
> users will feel comfortable editing this file, but it's worth a try!
>
> Tell, me what was your computer name set to in the Sharing system 
> pref? Was it blank? (the OS should not allow it to stay blank from 
> what I can tell).
>
> Ken
>
> On Nov 18, 2003, at 4:12 PM, Syd wrote:
>
>> You're a genius!
>> Actually I changed it to
>> HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
>> which is the default setting and now MS works.
>>
>> On 19/11/2003, at 5:45 AM, Craig Simmons wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Found a problem on a machine that would not stay connected for more 
>>> than 2 seconds. The computer was defaulting to localhost on the 
>>> PocketPC. By changing the /etc/hostconfig file to include 
>>> HOSTNAME=mymac, it corrected the problem.
>>>
>>> I've seen some people mentioning this problem and thought it might 
>>> help.
>>>
>>> Craig.
>>
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