On Monday 24 January 2005 13:17, Dumb Waiter wrote:
Hi,
My PC had a reasonable host name, "linux" I think it was. Then one gloomy day it somehow changed to "129". Now I am looking for information about how the host setting works in Suse 9.2; inspite of reading a wad of stuff and searching and oggling web postings I seem not to understand the basic concept of it and of the web settings related to it; like domain name 'site'.
If you can point me to a source of good overview & necessary details please do so. I'd be happiest if hit with terminology one would use for describing quantum physics to an exceptionally stupid rodent.
Oooh! Oooh! I know this one. Use the YaST configuration tool: YaST->Network Services->Host Names -or- YaST->Network Devices->Network Card->Change->Edit Select the "129" entry and edit it. If you're on a private network (or a standalone box) you can set the host name and domain name to anything you like. Enter something like "192.168.0.1", "myhost.mydomain", "myhost" in the fields. Save and your done. Jeff