Shouldn't DNS take care of that?
Have you got a fully functioning DNS set up on your network?
I hope so. Certainly, my web service (Apache) distinguishes between my domain names. However, whilst my XP workstation seems to resolve the FQDN of my Linux (SuSE 9.2) server, my laptop (also SUSE 9.2) does not.
All of my configuartion has been with YAST; which files do I need to edit (and with what information) to sort this?
Thanks
You know that your DNS isn't working because putting the IP instead of the hostname in the yast NFS configuration module worked whereas the hostname didn't. I'd recommend getting it working with /etc/hosts first as setting up a DNS is not a small task. So the file you need to edit is /etc/hosts. You can also edit this file from yast. Good luck, Steve.