Hi there,
could someone explain me briefly how I could find out localhost and localdomain info? I'm about to use VNCViewer. And the command should be simple as "vncviewer" (address)? So what would be the correct address if the computer is called for example "pc3" and the localhost "host" and the domain "domain" - pc3@host.domain:0? Or do I simply put it 'pc3.localhost.localdomain'? And what to do with the firewall if...? Well, I'm lost!

And one question more: I managed to use remote desktop on my computer but the windows appears all confused. Solutions? This is the report that comes out:

Cheers,
ursinus

The windows hostname is not the same as the linux hostname. The windows hostname is tied with the file and printer sharing service, and broadcast to everyone else in the network it's hostname to tie it with an IP address...

Now, in linux, there is no service that really does that unless you install extra software, the hostname you give your computer will not be broadcasted to other computers.

So if you call your computer pc3, the other computers won't know pc3 is equal to 192.168.0.102 , for example.
If you want to call your computers by hostname, you have to specify the IP and hostname match in the host file.

localhost will always point to the computer itself, and not another computer, same with 127.0.0.1.
If you launch a VNC server on your computer, you can access it from the same computer by connection to localhost.

The domain name... I never had to bother with that too much :P

Ok, got it. Thanks a lot! I've one question though: How can I determine the IP-number of the computer that I'm using? There must be a command, or how?

You can use "ifconfig" to know your ip address.

I use "ifconfig | grep 192" . grep will search for the string 192, and print out the lines that contain it. Since my ip pretty much always begins with that, it'll pretty much always tell me my ip

Thanks again. Now I'll just need to find the command and download it.