Change computer name for L2TP/IPSec

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Change computer name for L2TP/IPSec

Hello,

I try to connect to our Windows Server 2008 based Network in the institute. The VPN is L2TP/IPSec based and uses machine certificates (+credentials) for authentification.

The sole problem I have is that I cannot find a way to change the hostname of my mac from e.g. iMac.local to iMac.institute.org. This is needed as the VPN Server tries to match the name my mac tells when connecting to the name in the machine certificate.

A lot of googling didn't help, any suggestions where to start?

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M

Posted on Jan 11, 2009 1:59 AM

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Tim Haigh

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Jan 11, 2009 2:23 PM in response to neth

Normally when you join a network that has an internal domain name such as institute.org the host names given to computers are controlled by its local dns server.

You would normally have an IT department that would setup your mac's IP address with a fully qualified domain name and rdns on the dns server.

If this is the case your IT administrator would have to manually assign the IP and DNS server details that are given to your vpn connection based on your account login.

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neth Author

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Jan 11, 2009 3:41 PM in response to Tim Haigh

Thanks for your reply. The problem is that I'm trying to access the intitutes lan via VPN from my iMac at home. And I have no IT department at home 🙂 By now, I managed to set my hostname using scutil. But now i have another problem: The IPSec configuration dialog does not allow me to choose a machine certificate. The button just does not work... But I'll post this in an appropriately named new Thread.

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