[aderlopas]

I run it just fine using profile.name = XXX. I have set the master and secondary profile name in Kodi, and have no issue with making connection to either profile. I never had to use profile.master=. Not sure how you are renaming, but it works just fine as long as you set a name to each profile through the GUI in Kodi.

Here is my config if it helps put it in perspective. The pi3 is master profile and pi2 is secondary on the same machine. pi1 is stand alone (shared mysql with pi2).

Code:

rpc.ipversion = 4
allow.recacheall = yes
cache.castthumb = yes
prune.retain.types = castthumb
qafile = yes
qaperiod = 9999
qa.warn.urls = ^video
extrajson.movies = file

[pi1]
xbmc.host = 10.0.1.5
userdata = /Volumes/osmc/.kodi/userdata
dbfile = /Volumes/osmc/.kodi/userdata/Database/Textures13.db
thumbnails = Thumbnails/
download.threads = 4

[pi2]
xbmc.host = 10.0.1.10
profile.name = Dan
userdata = /Volumes/osmc-1/.kodi/userdata
dbfile = /Volumes/osmc-1/.kodi/userdata/profiles/Dan/Database/Textures13.db
thumbnails = /Volumes/osmc-1/.kodi/userdata/profiles/Dan/Thumbnails

[pi3]
xbmc.host = 10.0.1.10
profile.name = Charlie
userdata = /Volumes/osmc-1/.kodi/userdata
dbfile = /Volumes/osmc-1/.kodi/userdata/Database/Textures13.db
thumbnails = /Volumes/osmc-1/.kodi/userdata/Thumbnails/

Yes, it works indeed. Related to your question, please note that I am following the below guidelines to rename the profile:

http://kodi.wiki/view/MySQL/Portable_dev...d_profiles