network newbie question

[Wei-Yee Chan]

NoOp wrote:
> It is not necessary to edit your /etc/hosts file to include the Windows
> machine. 
>   
Your right, but I was adopting a just-in-case approach

> One thing that *is* helpful however is to set both the windows
> and linux machine domains to the same. In otherwords, if your windows
> machine domain is 'workgroup' and the linux machine is 'mshome' there
> may be conflicts later on. It's best to set them both the same. To do
> this on the linux machine:
>
> System|Networking|General
> Hostname: machinename
> Domain name: mshome (or workgroup etc)
Ah, yes.  I forgot about the domain name altogether.  Thanks for
reminding me.

I can't remember how I did it on Dapper but on Edgy, it's:

System-Administration-Networking, followed by a final click of the
"General" tab,


Regards,

Wei-Yee Chan
http://chanweiyee.blogspot.com




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