Setting the "Device Name" when activating device licenses

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February 18, 2015
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What determines the “Device Name” in the list of activated devices in the Development Pool on the Adobe license site for device licenses? Specifically for Macs... It doesn't seem to be the "Sharing Preferences" pane...

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Correct answer David Patschke

So, figured it out by myself. It appears that the Adobe serializer uses the local Mac's hostname. You can find that out by going to the terminal and typing 'hostname'. The host name gets set initially by any domain name that is assigned to the IP. If none is, it uses the Sharing Name in the Sharing preferences pane. Regardless, you can override and change the hostname using the terminal (sudo scutil --set HostName mynewhostname.local). Deauthorize the device on the Adobe site and reauthorize and it will appear as desired. This way, you can have the machine listed on the Adobe site however you wish rather than by domain name. This is helpful if you have a long list of machines and wish to set their hostnames to their room number or location, etc.

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So, figured it out by myself. It appears that the Adobe serializer uses the local Mac's hostname. You can find that out by going to the terminal and typing 'hostname'. The host name gets set initially by any domain name that is assigned to the IP. If none is, it uses the Sharing Name in the Sharing preferences pane. Regardless, you can override and change the hostname using the terminal (sudo scutil --set HostName mynewhostname.local). Deauthorize the device on the Adobe site and reauthorize and it will appear as desired. This way, you can have the machine listed on the Adobe site however you wish rather than by domain name. This is helpful if you have a long list of machines and wish to set their hostnames to their room number or location, etc.