[SWLUG] Fwd: Re: hopefully easy question: naming machines on a tiny network

[Mark Summerfield]

Just a quick follow-up:

- On Fedora I was able to add the host names via a GUI
  (System/Administration/Network)

- On Ubuntu I couldn't find a GUI so just manually edited /etc/hosts;
  the same on Mac OS X

- I used ifconfig to get the MAC addresses (HWaddr) on Fedora and
  Ubuntu; for Mac I when to "About this Machine" then asked for more
  info, then chose Network, then Ethernet and it specified the MAC
  address. I then added these to the Voyager's list of fixed IP
  addresses, rebooted the router and now I can do scp etc. using
  names:-)

Thanks!



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Subject: Re: [SWLUG] hopefully easy question: naming machines on a tiny 
network
Date: 2009-06-03
From: Mark Summerfield <mark at qtrac.eu>
To: SWLUG General Discussion <discuss at swlug.org>

Thanks to all of you who replied!

Your info has led to me discovering that the Voyager router has a DHCP
configuration which lets me use DHCP in general, but to reserve specific
IP addresses for specific MAC addresses (and now I know more about those
too:) So I will try to do this and then map the IP addresses to names in
/etc/hosts on my Fedora & Ubuntu machines & try to do the equivalent on
Mac OS X. (I only have a Mac for testing cross-platform software---I'm
not a Mac guy!)

Thanks again:-)

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