[clue] installfest

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Mon Mar 5 17:48:04 MST 2012


William Smith II wrote:
> My thanks to Gus, Collins, and Jon B for their help at the installfest. I'm
> running PCLos 2007 32 bit on my dualboot backup computer, and I need to
> edit the "computer name" because I think the router I'm trying to connect
> to wirelessly is already connected to "home2" on the windows side of this
> box and is not allowing me to connect to "home2" on the linux side.

I'm not sure why your router (or networking generally) cares about your host name.  Unless you're 
trying to resolve the same name to different addresses (which isn't necessary).

But the most important places to change it are /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts.

Dave


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