Maybe you did not see it in my original posting (in the 'optional' part of my msg) but even though doing just what you told me to do DID change the host name in resp setting _in Yast_ and it remains changed there, the host name I get in KDE console _prompt_ still remains '129' and the _printenv_ command still prints HOSTNAME and HOST as being '129'.
If I somehow have caused this persistence myself by the command 'export HOST/HOSTNAME=129 + allexport (which I did after my earlier modification trials halted my net connection) then how could I undo that 'exporting' so that changing the values in Yast would also change the host name in the KDE terminal prompt?
Take a look in the home directory of the user for a hidden file ".bashrc". By default this holds the user's default environmental variable values for the bash shell. If you use a different shell the file may have a different name but the purpose is the same. Jeff
I am still quite confused about all the places where Suse saves these parameters, what is the preference of hierarchy among them, and how one could expunge the heretical host names for good and replace them with saner ones.
Should you bump into a tutorial on these things, please let me know. Information on editing this file and that file doesn't reveal the big picture, that I should have, before I try to couple my two Suse machines in a harmonious home network. And maybe a WinME Pc - or maybe not.
Mike