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Aloha,
I would like to set up a home network with 2 clients and 1 file server using NFS. How do I set the computer name? I know that hostname ...
- 10-15-2005 #1Linux Newbie
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Aloha,
I would like to set up a home network with 2 clients and 1 file server using NFS. How do I set the computer name? I know that hostname will allow me to set the hostnames on the systems. I want the following names:
edward for my computer
toni for the wifes computer
file_server for the file server
I want the network or hostname to be haddock.family
so that my computer would be edward.haddock.family or something like that? This way I can set up shared folders on the file servers for our music and such. I know that IP addressing schem so no worries. Any advice is appreciated.
Mahalo,
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- 10-23-2005 #2Linux User
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You should use hostname (man and go...) to setup name of the hosts. This is not very usefull for network host naming... this is done by a DNS,
About network names, you have to install and setup a DNS service (bind, named...). You can look around for a quick tutorial....When using Windows, have you ever told "Ehi... do your business?"
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- 10-23-2005 #3Linux Engineer
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