Hostname change

Quads · 03-17-2011, 02:53 PM

I feel so silly asking this but...

I have two Mandriva 2010.2 machines here. I changed the hostname on one from localhost to localserver. Output of uname -a shows the proper hostname, but across a samba share the machine still shows up as localhost. I edited the /etc/hosts file, but I cannont figure out why it shows up this way. Samba works, I just find it irritating.

szboardstretcher · 03-17-2011, 02:54 PM

Um,.. do you mean you changed the /etc/hosts file to say

Code:

127.0.0.1 localserver

??

ernie · 03-18-2011, 12:38 AM

Check the Samba configuration on the machine with the changed host name . . .

HTH,

Quads · 03-18-2011, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by szboardstretcher

Um,.. do you mean you changed the /etc/hosts file to say

Code:

127.0.0.1 localserver

??

Yes. The hostname command now says the machine is named localserver. However I'm trying to figure out why its not represented as such on the network. Obviously it is somewhere else too.

szboardstretcher · 03-18-2011, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quads

Yes. The hostname command now says the machine is named localserver. However I'm trying to figure out why its not represented as such on the network. Obviously it is somewhere else too.

Ok.

change /etc/hosts back to:

Code:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain	localhost localserver

Because it will break things in your system if you've changed it. You can *add* your new hostname to it, as Ive shown, but do not remove the localhost entries.

Also, edit the file: /etc/sysconfig/network

and change HOSTNAME=lkjdlkjd to HOSTNAME=localserver

Now, for other systems to see this machine as "localserver" you will need to add

Code:

192.168.1.100 localserver

replacing the ip address with the actual ip of course, to the /etc/hosts files of those systems.