Forum:Hostname

Ok here is another thing that is making trouble for me, I did the updates to my 2 SPP's and now they have the same hostname. Is there a way to change the names without using IMTools, I am not to comfertable using that program. Im not sure I can follow the instructions corectly and make it work. I have also read every doc on this site and I dont remember saying that if you were to muck it up that you could reinstall another firmware and fix the problem.

Ed


 * Yes, if you create some kind of invalid firmware using IOMTools, then just reflash with a standard firmware. The only caveat is that you may lose other data on your drive while you are reflashing the firmware. The firmware is stored on 2 partitions. The first partition is the main OS and the second partition includes some OS files and also some data files. If these data files get corrupted, then doing a flash and selecting "Keep Multimedia Data" will not fix the problem as it does not make any changes to the second partition. You end up having to do a full firmware install and selecting "Remove All Data" to clean it up. There are two other partitions, the 3rd partition is for paging, and the 4th is the multimedia partition.


 * If you want to make changes to the samba settings manually, just use the instructions in Changing workgroup. This gets you into the smb.conf file where the network configuration information is kept. --JCoug 13:57, September 8, 2010 (UTC)