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Upgrade from lion server 10.7.4 to mountain lion osX server. After upgrade osX server keep giving alert that host name change everytime I reboot the server. Anyone know how to fix this? Everything seem to work except that annoying host name alert.
Are you on a .local AD network? What is it changing to and from what?
I am seeing the same issue on my 2 ML Servers. Both were clean installs, not upgrades. Both servers have valid hostnames of server.domain.com.
Thanks for reply, I am on the .private connecting VPN.
Hi,
I also have the same issue. changeip -checkhostname returns ok so DNS is functioning correctly.
Have you checked the reverse DNS lookup for the server's IP?
My server was changing it's name to match it's reverse DNS lookup... !
To test, try running:
nslookup <server's expected name>
then
nslookup <server's IP address>
and check they both come back as expected.
nslookup came back as expected.
DNS all OK with matching name.
I name the computer to osx-server and host name also osx-server to match.
What the problem is after reboot server app alert keep saying host name change from osx-server to osx-server.domain.private
I try doing a clean install of both ML and OSX server app and still same problem.
When you accept the alert, in my experience a wizard appears asking to set the type of network. I usually tell it that I'm using an internal network (middle option I think!) as opposed to a private network or internet network. Not sure if that will help ?
I had this same problem. I would set the host name to mydomain server. then when I log out and log back in it would be changed to myFQDN$. I figured it out it was because in profile manager I had set the toggle on the login module, Options, to "Set computer name to the record name". Basically everytime I login to the machine it would change the name.
HTH
David
Can you tell me where in profile manager is the toggle? I can't seem to find it. Or can you tell me step by step what you change to get it working?
Finally got it working now. I delete and re-added my apple ID under System preferences -->User & Groups. I reboot/log off about 50 times now and no more alert of the hostname change.
delete and re-added my apple ID under System preferences -->User & Groups. I reboot/log off about 50 times now and no more alert of the hostname change.
Hello,
Your Solution (above) doest'n work on my OS X Server.
What can i do ? Please i need your help.
Thank you.
This did not work for me either.
Please can somebody give some help?
Thanks!
I tried deleting/re-adding the AppleID but it didn't solved the problem.
Evertime the server boots, I get the alert of the hostname changed.
I forgot another thing I did in server app. Go to Open Directory and click on the Locales tab, edit the Default locales and remove any servers name from the list. Give this a try. As of now I the alert message have not return for me.
I don't have an open directory !!
How can i do ?
Mountain lion server keep changing host name
