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fLum0x

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these are personal servers that i will use and will be networked in for others to access.

in other words, they arent for a whole company or anything, just for testing and fun naming purposes :)
 

RandomFool

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I've also seen

Character/TVShow/Movie## - Vader01
Location### - Providence01 or RI135
ComputerTypeUserNameOS - DrfoolXP (d for desktop, l for laptop, etc)
Deptartment### - HR266

If I had to pick something that made sense I'd go with something like:

DepartmentComputerTypeUsernameOS - HRLrfoolXP

Then you could easily get a bunch of info from the machine name.
 

pstylesss

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I do building location initial + asset tag, so for example: CH-1492

My home network is named after led zeppelin. The server is always Led Zeppelin and the PCs are always the albums.
 
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I've always used BORG_HIVE as the AD server and all the other severs are UNIMATRIX001, 002 ect. Workstations become 1of9 and so forth.
 

GeekDrew

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I personally like a fixed-length string of characters uniquely identifying each domain, region, campus, building, room, cubicle, desk, sequence (using only those sets that are necessary in that environment). My company wouldn't need region or campus, as we can easily be identified by domain and building.

Given that my domain name might be abbreviated to "FN", building to "CH", room to "102", and machine sequence number to "05", I would be "FNCH10105". It's extremely easy to remember, as long as you know the string construction order. :)
 
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People at work used motorcycle models.

It was funny because one was named "fat boy". So, no matter what you pick for covnention, be careful.

So, how many computers need names? Order of magnitude that is? 10, 100, 1000?
 

LuckyTaxi

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servers - we use casino names from Las Vegas.

We have bellagio, mirage and luxor. I'm thinking of putting in palms pretty soon.
 

tomt4535

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Originally posted by: brtspears2
2 letter site code + 2 letter role of computer/server + last 4 of MAC address

:thumbsup: We used something similar here, but it just changed recently.
 

dainthomas

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Originally posted by: fLum0x
taking all good ideas...

so far, i have thought types of cheese and beer would be okay. star wars, heman, that kind of stuff is already taken :)

you can't go wrong with obscure Middle-Earth characters (Finwe, Hador, Glaurung etc).
 

MiniDoom

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Originally posted by: brtspears2
2 letter site code + 2 letter role of computer/server + last 4 of MAC address

what do you do when a computer has two nic's?
 

imported_Imp

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At my last job, they actually named a bunch of servers Aries, Trinity, Neo, etc. Find some gods and list them by alpha?