On 8 August 2010 16:51, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 02:00:34PM +0100, Tim Green wrote:
On 8 August 2010 13:46, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
What do others here have in their /etc/hosts file? I.e. do you have an entry for the name of the system in /etc/hosts as well as specifying it in /etc/hostname?
I have: 127.0.1.1 timspc
Not sure if that was me or Ubuntu 10.04, but it seems to work fine.
... and do you have other computers on the local network which can refer to 'timspc' by name (or vice versa)?
That's the annoying part - no. The Windows PCs on the network sometimes work by SMB magic, but that's not always reliable. The best solution seems to be to combine DHCP and DNS in one server on the network that automatically adds local PCs to the local DNS, and preferably that server is the router.
Tim.