On Tuesday 14 June 2016 18:08:45 Brian wrote: > On Tue 14 Jun 2016 at 16:06:17 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:53:17 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:48 PM Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 14 June 2016 15:40:22 Reco wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 03:32:19PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > > > > Hostnames, here I come. > > > > > > > > For hostnames within your own network, consider installing avahi. > > > > Thanks, Mark. I have. After the earlier hints. I just haven't got it > > working yet. :-( So I shall look at both it and having hostnames files > > to see which I can actually succeed with. > > With avahi-daemon installed on both machines > > ssh hostname.local > > should just work. No messing with config files or anything like that. > > /etc/hosts is fine if you are more comfortable with it but an IP address > changing can make it a pain on the local LAN.
Works a dream!! Thank you, Brian. That was a remarkably easy lesson! I might set a hosts file up as I was shown by emetib. It doesn't hurt to know both, and I might some time want to ssh into a machine that hasn't got avahi-daemon installed. But I can see that changing IPs around could be a pain - I have several machines that have two network cards for one reason or another, and I have assigned different IPs to different cards in the router. Lisi
