I’ve tried a few times to get the Macs named on the network. On a Windows machine it’s easy – name it. On the Macs? No way.
The Sharing name, even when most items are shared still has Unknown showing in the router.
Going to some DHCP setting and naming shows the same Unknown.
Rebooting the router / machine gets the same thing.
Removing a machine from the network then rebooting the router has no effect.
Searching the Apple forums shows nothing but the above.

So in the end I did it manually. Not a big deal but the Macs should have been able to broadcast their names shouldn’t they?

Anyway, bar 3 there’s a theme :)

Edit: The network is called Amanda

For whatever reason you care to use / not use, I for one find using a mouse on a Windows machine to be smoother and just plain better.

Let me use an analogy: There are certain driving games that feel just right – it feels like there is traction, that the response is correct, that the time between action and response is perfect. Gran Turismo / Colin McRae / Mario Kart64 for example. And there are some which just don’t pull it off – Double Dash for example. You can’t quite quantify what is wrong but the experience feels wrong.
That’s how I feel with the Mac mouse control – and I’m using the Logitech MX Revo on both.

And this is not an anti-mac thing, it’s just an observation :)