I have installed NXServer from NOMachine and I want to connect to my home computer from work. Because the router at my house is dynamic as is the wireless to this computer how do i go about setting up a host name for one of these computers? I am running the latest debian. I also intend to use this computer eventually as a file and web server so this would be extremely benificial! Thanks

MT

The installs should already have a host name

echo $HOSTNAME

If you want to be able to access a host by its name rather than an IP, then you need to either add the hosts to /etc/hosts or add a DNS server to your network.

Broadly speaking:

First you need to connect from work to the router. If you don't have a fixed IP address from your internet service provider, you could make use of a dynamic DNS service such as http://www.dyndns.com/. This is fine for just connecting to your home desktop, but it is a messy way to run a webserver.

Second, you need to move traffic from the router to the PC. There are several ways to do this. One is to change your home computer to have a fixed IP address, and change the router settings to forward traffic on relevant ports to a particular home computer (relevant ports would be the ones that you are using for NXServer, etc). Be aware that this makes the home computer directly visible from the internet, so be conservative about which services you run on it and which ports you open.