Re: computer name

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From: Lew Pitcher
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 03:17

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Dtom wrote:
> How do you change the computer name?

Which computer name? There are at least three different names you might be 
referring to:
1) The name that hostname(1) / gethostname(2) / sethostname(2) manipulate,
2) The DNS resolver(3) name associated with one or more of your IP addresses
    (including the name associated to 127.0.0.1), or
3) The name used by samba(7) as the SMB computername

Where (and with what utilities) each of these are set is dependant on how you 
have the various system utilities set up, and that is a great deal dependant 
on which Linux distribution you are running. You're going to have to be 
clearer in explaining what you want, and what you've got.

-- 
Lew Pitcher

Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered (Slackware) Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/)

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