Host name

Ab3n · 04-09-2007, 12:04 PM

Hey all,

I'm using fedora 6 and was wondering how I would go about settting the machine's name so that I don't have to refer to it's ip address when connecting from other machines (both win and linux). Thanks!

Lenard · 04-09-2007, 12:15 PM

From the console or xterm session type; man hostname

fur · 04-09-2007, 12:24 PM

Setting the hostname on a computer wont allow other computer to refer to it as such. You will either need to setup a DNS server, or make entries in your hosts file for all the devices on the network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file

Walman · 04-09-2007, 01:16 PM

Ab3n

You need to configure your /etc/hosts file . In that you will add the IP address of your machine , the full domain name and the alias name ,

once done that , the name will be always resolved to that IP address .

Also , you can issue the command hostname <your computers name> that will put a name to your computer but it will be not recognize in the net until you cofigure the file /etc/hosts

dgar · 04-09-2007, 02:17 PM

On windows looks for the hosts file somewhere like:
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.txt

Make sure both the windows and the linux machines have static IP addresses and make entries in both machine's hosts files. Then test with ping, etc.