Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

[Colin Carter <colincarter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 08 May 2005 13:59, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 08 May 2005 05:49, Colin Carter wrote:
> > (2) I changed it to  MyPC  and nothing worked (not Konsole, Konqueror,
> > Yast) ... big sweat until I managed to switch to root and change back to
> > exetel
>
> The reason for this is normally that the access to the X server is by
> hostnmae, and the access 'cookie' you were give on login had the old
> hostname.
>
> When you change your hostname, it's normally enough to log out and log back
> in for things to start working again
Thanks Anders.
Did you read how it effected my printing?
Given what you said, it sounds like the best thing I could do is

change my host name back to  MyPC
Re-boot my PC.
and try setting up my printer again

But would it effect my ADSL, email, et cetera?
I need to "stay on air".
Regards,
Colin