computer name on a LAN

[Michael Klinosky]

Aaron:
> I am not sure what you are doing ...

Trying to learn rsync. To that end, I delved into rcp. I'm trying to
config things so that I can do something like 'rcp <file> <name of other
machine>:'.

> ports and 4 machines (2 are wireless). My hosts file is as follows:
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.1.100		vulcan vulcan.gateway.2wire.net
> 192.168.1.101		saturn saturn.gateway.2wire.net
> 192.168.1.65		cyrus cyrus.gateway.2wire.net
> And I can do : ssh vulcan from saturn without problem. Is that what you
> want to do?

hmmm ... I suppose.
Your info gave me an idea: in Network, in the 'Hosts' tab, I entered the
name of the other machine (and reset the network). Now, I can 'ping 
<name of other machine>'. I think that's progress!

Mikkel:
>> [mpk at d500 documents]$ ping 10.0.0.6
>> PING 10.0.0.6 (10.0.0.6) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 64 bytes from 10.0.0.6: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.22 ms
>>
> Ok - there is a route to the host.

:)    Funny, considering I got this earlier:
[mpk at d500 documents]$ rcp info 10.0.0.6:
10.0.0.6: No route to host

> the r* services are running by default. Did you install portmap?

No. I checked for it in the Package Manager - not there.