[OMGWTFBBQ]

I am a Windows network admin at work.
I have my AlBook here and it connects to out network in the sense that it grabs an IP address from the DHCP server and then I can surf the web and get e-mail from outside servers.

When I had a Windows laptop, I did the same thing (it plugged in, grabbed a DHCP IP address, but never logged in to our network), but the name of the laptop would show up on the network - this was useful in tracking bandwidth usage as well as where our IP addresses are going inside our firewall.

With the Mac, I don't see a way for it to send a name to the Windows network. I don't need it to show up in Network Neighborhood, and I don't need it to be able to login to the servers and access files.

I just want to be able to do a "net view" and see the laptop name show up in the list of machines connected to the network.

Anyone here versed in this sort of thing?

[gorickey]

Have you set up the AluBook with a "DHCP Client ID" in Network Prefs?

[Saetre]

I think you have to turn on 'Windows Sharing' in the 'Sharing' area of System Preferences.

[OMGWTFBBQ]

I filled in the DCHP id as "banana" just to assure that it wouldn't match anything on our network. I did this some time back - it never showed up on our network.

I have since now filled out the Windows sharing information and changed the names in there so that it will stand out on the network - I don't actually want to share anything, I just want to be able to easily track bandwidth usage and do a local nslookup on the IP and resolve it to the computer name.

It hasn't shown up yet in the nslookup table, but I will give it some time to see if that is in fact all that was missing.

thank.