Ethernet Device Static vs Automatically

[Stuart Sears]

On Sunday 16 January 2005 21:17, craig-fcp wrote:
> > If you have other computers on the LAN with statically assigned IP
> > addresses, enter their IPs together with an alias on the Hosts tab to
> > allow you to access them using just the alias.
>
> It's got three fields
> Address: Hostname: Alias
something like this:
Address:192.168.0.45
Hostname: windowsbox.mydomain.com
Alias: windowsbox

ie an IP address, a long (fully-qualified) hostname, and a short hostname that 
you wish to use to access the windows box, instead of either the numerical 
address or the long version.
This is usually the bit before the first dot in the long name, but it actually 
can be anything you wish.

this should write a line in /etc/hosts like this...
192.168.0.45 windowsbox.mydomain.com windowsbox

Stuart
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