I never name them after users or jobs.

Post #157,566 by Andrew Grygus 5/29/04 3:04:56 PM Reply	I never name them after users or jobs. The moment they're all named, musical chairs is played and the users want the name of their hated predecessor expunged and their own name put in place. Then you have to go around and change the drive/printer assignments all over the place, and two weeks later it's musical chairs again.. I use animal names (Bear, Badger, Gerbil etc), trees (Oak, Walnut, Maple, etc.), or fish (Trout, Pike, Walleye, etc.) or some combination (perhaps servers are animals, users are trees). People seem to have little trouble remembering these names and where they are. When the boss insists on having his computer named after himself, two months later the shipping department has a computer with the bosses name and he wonders why he can't name his new computer after himself. Of course I deal with small businesses (3 to 30 computers) - this probably wouldn't work in a large installation without some prefixes. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #157,583 by deSitter 5/29/04 4:00:11 PM Reply	Re: I never name them after users or jobs. In a large org the names are often based on the IOmail address. That made the most sense IMO. -drl
Post #157,587 by mmoffitt 5/29/04 4:03:44 PM Reply	Heh. Years ago I used trees for the IT department I worked in (small shop, 15 IT workers). The boss got ticked at me because I named his machine "Locust". He said, "I know you think you're being cute naming my machine Locust. Change it - today." He was obviously a little brighter than I gave him credit for. bcnu, Mikem If you can read this, you are not the President.
Post #157,600 by JayMehaffey 5/29/04 4:51:32 PM Reply	Theme names One big company we did work for at my last job had theme names. Each cluster of computers had a theme and each computer was named to match the theme. The servers we maintained where "North Pole" and had computers named Rudolf, Blitzen, Dancer and Dasher. There was also a group called "Pet Farm" which had cow, pig, goat. Following their pattern, we named our development computers Hades, Tartarus and Pluto. Jay
Post #157,603 by Andrew Grygus 5/29/04 5:14:18 PM Reply	I've always cautioned to be careful with names. For instance "Beaver" is restricted to server appliances that will never become workstation assigned to the boss's snazzy young daughter, just hired. At one place, one of the girls was in some kind of accident and both her eyes were black and blue. From that point on nobody ever forgot that "Raccoon" was her workstation. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #157,666 by deSitter 5/30/04 2:18:00 AM Reply	Re: I've always cautioned to be careful with names. At one former job the DB programmers adopted STNG as their theme. One guy annoyed me to no end so I punk'd him. I patched his COMMAND.COM to call my own batch file instead of AUTOEXEC.BAT. My file edited his WfW machine name, so that at each boot he came up as "WESLEY". He'd change it and back it'd go the next day. My batch file would chain AUTOEXEC.BAT so changes made there would still work. Needless to say, he was perplexed. -drl

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