Changing Host name help please
Jack Gates
jlgates at charter.net
Wed Aug 9 19:18:12 UTC 2006
This is from my /etc/hosts file
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
What is the proper way to change this file so that:
localhost.localdomain is replaced with something more useful for
identification of my FC5 box on my network?
Can I just edit this file or is there another location to do this and
are there any other files that need to change?
What other information can go in the /etc/hosts file?
I have tried changing this before but the OS complains when I boot.
It says something like unknown host name or can't determine the host
name. so I have left this alone. It looks like I will need to
change it so I can hopefully get my printer set up for my wife's Win
XP box to use.
Thanks,
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Jack Gates http://www.morningstarcom.net/
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