My guess is that his iPad used your IP address beforehand and requested
'johnrs-ipad' be it's hostname during the DHCP request a while back. When
your MacBook did a DHCP request, the server recycled the old iPad record
without properly cleaning it first.
Benjie.
On 5 July 2011 15:28, Mike Burrows <testermike@???> wrote:
> Hello folks.
> I am connecting to the LAN at work from my macbook. When I open a terminal
> i get this message:
>
> Last login: Tue Jul 5 09:19:23 on ttys000
> johnrs-ipad:~ testermike$
>
> We do have a John R at work and he does have an ipad. However I can't
> understand why its reporting my macbook as his ipad.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> TIA
> Mike
>
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