Where does BOINC get a computers name from? The reason I ask is that one of my machines has an odd name. I have no idea where the name came from, as far as I know, the machine has never had anything like that on it?

The computer name on network setup is correct. If I connect to it from another machine on my network, I use the correct name.

It just seems to be the BOINC projects that have picked up an odd string.

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Mine came from the nmae I used in the Windows install of my computer.
And my user name came from the individual user name that I used for Windows. (Until I changed it here.)

It is taken from the name given at windows install or network setup. Sometimes your ISP will append a domain name to the end of it. If you do not set your own name during install windows will create a semi-random name for the computer.

You said that the network name is correct. Try restarting BOINC (and/or the computer) and see if it will pick up the correct name.

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It has been like this for weeks, (months?), the machine has certainly been restarted within that period.

Sometimes your ISP will append a domain name to the end of it.

Now that does sound like what I'm seeing. In my network setup, and on my LAN, the machine in question is called Evesham, but at BOINC it is evesham.opasia.dk. Now, I've never used opasia, but that is another service that TeleDanmark offer, and TeleDanmark is my ISP.

It is only this one machine that is showing that. This machine I'm typing on for example, is called Foniks, and appears that way in BOINC.

Assuming rebooting will not correct this, is there another way forward you can see?

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I have a win 9x machine that appends cablerocket.net to the end of the host name. This is the domain name of the second or third hop if you do a trace, not the name of my ISP. All of my XP machines have just the local host name reported. The only thing to do is live with it. A new version of BOINC may change this behavior, however I don't think that is likely.

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a win 9x machine that appends cablerocket.net to the end of the host name

Evesham runs Win NT4 SP6a, perhaps the OS vintage is significant?

The only thing to do is live with it.

Yup, as I said, it's been like it for ages, but until yesterday, I'd never bothered to query it. As you can imagine, it is not something I agonise over 24/7.

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a win 9x machine that appends cablerocket.net to the end of the host name

Evesham runs Win NT4 SP6a, perhaps the OS vintage is significant?

The only thing to do is live with it.

Yup, as I said, it's been like it for ages, but until yesterday, I'd never bothered to query it. As you can imagine, it is not something I agonise over 24/7.

G'day adrianxw

I had a similar "problem" with a win98 box (I've since converted it to linux - so I'm going from memory) but one of the network fields was Domain. Anything entered in this field was appended to the end of the hostname in BOINC - hostname.domain

I cured it by clearing the entry from this field and from that point on it was only ever reported as hostname

I'm pretty sure it was part of screen that held dns settings, but I don't know that NT would be the same.

HTH :)

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I've looked through all the setups in the networking tabs, and can't find anything that looks relevent. The domain field is blank.

I did a global disk scan for the word "opasia", but it is not present.

I notice BOINC Debt Viewer also displays the Host: as evesham.opasia.dk, so I'd of thought it must be getting it locally.

When my broadband modem died, months ago, I did try to install a PPPoE client on the machine so I could use a dial-up. It never worked, but the process of installing/deinstalling it may have left some junk in the registry that is being picked up somehow.

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Have you tried looking for "opasia" in the registry?

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