But, what if the only information you had was a MAC address and you needed to find out to whom it belonged? Perhaps you want to dig for more information based on a MAC address that has been listed in your router or you need to know who has been accessing your local network. I better stick to Windows.It is common for network administrators and computer users to PING a device to find the IP address of a website, a host, or even a hostname. I ordered today a new Microsoft Laptop and will sell the brand new MacBook, because the here described issue isn’t by far the only one which annoys me with macOS. I also will give up now, for my own sanity, exactly as you said. But after a restart the NetBIOS name was again “Apple” or “APPLE”. Because after that the NetBIOS name was initially “MACBOOK-PRO” and not “MACBOOK” as I had expected. So I thought I should use your command to set the HostName to “MacBook” (sudo scutil –set HostName “MacBook”) which created a astonishing result on my machine.

Print: Entry, “:System:System:HostName”, Does Not Exist

Here are the results:Ģ.) /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c “Print :System:System:HostName” /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ist Displaying the Host Name” things got weird for me. Therefore, in my case, the NetBIOSName “Apple” clearly isn’t derived from the Bonjour name (which apparently is the same as the LocalHostName), because my LocalHostName is “MacBook-Pro”.Īfter using the 3 commands from your chapter “5. The question for me is, where does my machine gets this name from? Where else is this NetBIOSName “Apple” configured? (This I configured myself in the GUI under Shares) (Which is the default name created from the initial computer setup) I used and checked all of your commands for the terminal. In my case the NetBIOS name can’t be derived from the Bonjour name. Well In my initial post I forgot to mention that my attempts also included several reboots of the MacBook itself plus my router of course. For me it’s even harder because it’s my very first Mac, thus I’m still an unexperienced beginner with macOS and have to learn everything piece by piece myself with the help of the Internet. Apparently I’m not alone fighting with this inadequateness of macOS.

Ip config for mac