changing the hostname

[Dano]

Hi . I'm trying to change the hostname on my box because I'm having network troubles with machines running window's XP . seems xp defaults to "localhost " for their hostnames too. I've used
"hostname -v new_host_name"
and edited the etc/hosts file to read
"127.0.0.0 new_host_name "
but when I reboot everything reverts to localhost except of course there is no localhost in the etc/hosts file so I get an error(warning) on boot.
Any Ideas ??
Thanks in advance.

[lordnothing]

you have to have localhost in your /etc/hosts file.. it's the same as having both 127.0.0.1 and your LAN (local) IP address in /etc/hosts...

to change your hostname, edit /etc/hostname

[Dano]

Thanks. If I had bothered to read some of the other posts on this site I wouldn't have had to ask the question. Sorry about that . I actually got around it by editing the netbios name in the samba.conf file . The whiney XP machines can see me now !
Thanks again.

[z28com]

You could have also edited this file:

/etc/sysconfig/network

There should be a line in there that says:

HOSTNAME=whateveryourputinthere.com

I had to change my hostname and I edited this file.