[FONT=arial]Hi![/FONT]
[FONT=arial]You know how in Finder, in the Shared section on the sidebar you get all the local machines in your network? They have icons, representing their hardware (like a macbook would have a little macbook icon). PC’s have a old yellowish BSOD CRT monitor. That’s fine and I get the humor, but I’d like to have my Windows 8 machine appear as Generic hardware (the icon for that is the prev-gen Apple Cinema Display). I could simply change the PC icon to any other icon, but that would do things only for the Mac I change the icon in. The only way would be to somehow tell the Windows 8 machine to broadcast a different hardware ID (I do have iTunes and thus mDNSresponder.exe) [/FONT]
You can change the icon in OSX, open terminal and type. Not sure how you can broadcast different signature, sorry.
open /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources[FONT=arial]yeah, that’s what’s hanging around everywhere on the interwebs, but even if I wanted to do that on my own mac devices, it would still do that for every windows pc, but what I want to achieve is:[/FONT]
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[li][FONT=arial]Any Mac sees my PC as a different device[/FONT][/li][li][FONT=arial]It has to be my PC only. Say, if there are any other PCs on the network, only mine should appear as different hardware[/FONT][/li][/ol]
[FONT=arial]I’ve seen some guides for CentOS. It said to simply edit some config file. On windows, it seems, noone has tried this.[/FONT]