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

[David Scourfield]

Mark Summerfield wrote:
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> - On Ubuntu I couldn't find a GUI so just manually edited /etc/hosts;
>   the same on Mac OS X
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In Debian there's a GUI called network-admin that lets you edit the 
hosts file entries so I'd assume it's in Ubuntu too, since it's a Debian 
derivative.  In the GNOME menu it's under System > Administration > 
Network  or you can simply type
    sudo network-admin
at the command line.

Dai

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> 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>
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> Thanks to all of you who replied!
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> 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!)
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> Thanks again:-)
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