Bugs and Fixes: What's with Yosemite renaming shared computers?

Macworld
Nov 21, 2014, 6:30 am637 pts
There’s a mysterious network bug in OS X 10.10 Yosemite. The symptom is that the shared name (as viewed in the Sharing System Preferences pane) of one or more of your OS X devices keeps changing. It may start out, for example, as “My MacBook.” Check back later and it will be “My MacBook (1).” Still later, it…

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