Two machines on the network with the same hostname
There are two machines on my network that have the same hostname. I verified it by typing
# hostname
on the terminal. The effect is that I can only view one of the two machines on the Network, from Nautilus. One machine is Ubuntu 10.04 and the other is 9.10.
I tried
# sudo hostname newName
and restarted the machine, but the name remains the same. What should I do to change the hostname?
Thanks :)
The correct way to set hostname in ubuntu is to update the hostname file. This is true for most linux distributions.
emacs /etc/hostname
For more information see
man hostname