renaming my linux box

[James Lawrence]

xentek dev wrote:

>how does one set the name for the linux machine when being browsed by a
>windows machine?
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>samba is up and running, and i can access the shares on the linux box
>from my WinXP client, but it's named 'localhost'... I'd like to change
>it to something more descriptive.
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>thanks!
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red hat --->system settings---->Network     log in  as root

select the "dns" tab
in the host name box, change to what you want    me... [jim at My_World] 
instead of user at localhost.localdomain   that should do it . jusr reboot 
afterwards, if any questions, post BEFORE you change it