I’ve ended up with a number of machines on my network, and a need to name them all in a somewhat logical way. For several years I had them named after the planets, which worked well until the PCs for myself, my girlfriend, servers and Raspberry Pi’s quickly summed up to more than the eight planets. I’ve broadened it somewhat to include any Greek/Roman mythological figure, but the system is definitely not as clean as it used to be.

Do you have a coordinated naming theme for your machines?

  • HumaniusEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    All my devices get named after cities. I try to make it somewhat relevant to the purpose of the machine.
    Usually things related to the device (e.g. network shares) get named after neighbourhoods in the respective cities.

    • Main PC: SAN-FRANCISCO,
    • File server: SARAJEVO,
      • Shares: VRATNIK, BISTRIK, SEDRENIK, HRASTOVI,
    • Work laptop: SEATTLE,
    • Phone: BARCELONA,
    • Media box: CANNES.

    My boyfriend names all of his devices after planetary bodies, much like OP.
    Thing related to the devices are named after the moons of the respective planet.

    • Main PC: SATURN,
      • Drives: ATLAS, PROMETHEUS, TITAN, HYPERION, JANUS,
    • File server: JUPITER,
      • Shares: GANYMEDE,
    • Phone: PLUTO,
    • Laptop: CHARON.

    (He just realised that last one is inconsistent, and is renaming it to MERCURY)