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Two computers wuth the same name

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I have two computers with the same name but in different workgroups. When I installed the first ine it appear in the console without any problems but, when I installed the second one, the first one disappear from the console and now i can't find it.

I thought the console identified computers by their IP address. Am I wrong? Will I have to change the name of one of the computers?

Thank you.

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    I can more or less confirm this for new installations - it looks indeed like same name overwrites (but identical hostnames already in the database stay). I think this behaviour can cause problems: recently a number of computers has been installed for a specific project and the assigned names had 17 characters - unfortunately they differed only in the last two. Sophos uses the NetBIOS names which are only 15 characters - so instead of 8 only  1 computer "showed up".

    When was this introduced (as I said, I do have identical hostnames in SEC)?

    Christian

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    I can more or less confirm this for new installations - it looks indeed like same name overwrites (but identical hostnames already in the database stay). I think this behaviour can cause problems: recently a number of computers has been installed for a specific project and the assigned names had 17 characters - unfortunately they differed only in the last two. Sophos uses the NetBIOS names which are only 15 characters - so instead of 8 only  1 computer "showed up".

    When was this introduced (as I said, I do have identical hostnames in SEC)?

    Christian

    :1520
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