hi there
i am new to this! in the monitor tab i can see all the people connecting to me. how do change my name?? or at least see what my name would be appearing as in everyone else's monitor tabs!!
thanks

Your own name, or rather ip does not show up on your own machine, ... (I think that's what you are driving at). It is possible to see your own share, usually, by going to direct connect on the search page and searching your own ip ... you will see it when you get there. Unless you have some sorts of firewall set up, you should see your search in the search window. You may need to try more than once. I hope I understood your question and this helps.

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Natasha

As far as I can tell, you cannot change what your name is or what other P2P sharers see you as on the Monitor tab.

However, people cannot see your real name. i.e Natasha, all they see is your IP address.




UK Bob

Other people would simply see your ip. On odd occasions it might show isp but that's not usually the case in the monitor window, but rather the connections window (& that's only if you're an ultrapeer.) Your ip if it doesn't show under the direct connect search window is http://www.whatismyip.com/

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thanks guys, although i can see other peoples names, not their ip addresses...

What do you mean you can see their names? Where abouts in the monitor window?
Are you sure you're not getting confused with incoming searches? That simply lists other people's searches ... no ip's no names. Just the search terms. You probably see artist name because that's what the person is searching for.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR

Here's what I mean below.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR

yup, natasha, i just joined the forum in search of an answer to this very question.

i am on a mac using limewire and also itunes 6. in the "shared music" window in itunes, i see the real names of everyone on my network who is using limewire, e.g.: "john doe's limewire tunes." must be six or eight of these folks.

needless to say, i too am interested in changing my name so that it doesn't appear all over the network, but am novice enough that i haven't figured out how to do so yet.

any ideas?

cheers,

Whoah slow down a bit here! lol

iTunes is a totally different kettle of fish.

With iTunes, it will share playlists across a lan or wan. So if you are connected to a lan then you might see other people's iTunes playlists. That happens with our set up here (& some complaints from my partner lol )

So for OSX, you really don't need to share your iTunes. In iTunes preferences, you'll see an option to share your iTunes music. Also within LW, preferences (command & comma), iTunes>Sharing you also have an option to share your LW playlist such as with iTunes & others using iTunes on a LAN/WAN. Since auto-importing of songs is available for LW -> iTunes on a mac, I'm not sure why you'd want to use either of the share options within iTunes or LW. By doing so, you're allowing others on the LAN/WAN play your playlist & see others iTunes playlists. Of course, you can play their songs from their playlists, but can't copy them (& vice versa.) Unless you want to see their playlists &/or them to see your playlists.

__________________
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR

Splashncough

Being connected to a network is slightly different to be connected to the Internet, on a network you can see other peoples names and connections. On the internet, usually, peoples IDs and their computer names are protected from exposure by a firewall.

If a user does not have a firewall then it is possible to find out their computer name and, possibly, anything else on their hard drive.

I presume that you are either on an office or college network, either way networks primarily connect PCs together so that they can share information in your particular environment. Whereas the internet is about collecting information for yourself.




UK Bob