[ubuntu-uk] Filezilla Issue

[Stuart Ward]

Well this is all to do with name resolution services.

If you have all your machines getting their IP address from a NAT router
device, then this will be assigning IP addresses. Some od these will also
maintain a DNS entry for the machine names that t assignes, usally you need
to specify a domain to the router and then it becomes the canonical source
for these names. Set this to something that is not a valid domain, like
home.lan and then your machines will all be <computer name>.home.lan

Alternatively use windows name resolution.

First you need to set up one machine as a domain server, this should be a
linx machine with samba-server installed, There are some good guides on
setting up the server and then you can manage all the logins to all
machines, as well. This will include the winbind service which will perform
the name lookups. so if this is in place then windows machines will be able
to see all the other machines and workgroups that are windows or running
samba.

To get the name resolution working in Linux you may have to configure
/etc/nsswitch.conf; In the hosts line you need to add a wins entry.

Hope this helps


-- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143


On 5 January 2012 09:37, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 4 January 2012 22:11, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I use Filezilla to transfer files around my home network. Normally, when
> > setting up a transfer, I can identify each target device in the "Server
> > Name" field by its host name. However I've recently acquired a new PC
> and,
> > when running Filezilla on it, can only identify the target device by its
> IP
> > address. I can't for the life of me remember what I've done in the past
> to
> > ensure the target device host names are recognised. Can anybody enlighten
> > me?
>
> I don't know about Filezilla but if the machine's name is dumbo then
> you should be able to reference it by dumbo.local in any app.  For
> example you can use
> ssh dumbo.local
> to ssh to it.
>
> Colin
>
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