It seems very much likely that we will wind up with a set of tools to set and
change the machine name so it is likely that there is little more needed from
me, but I wanted to add another comment.
Ivanka Majic helpfully listed the design goals for the installer. I think the
goal of "Make instal
Though I'd love to have the installer always ask for hostname, Oliver's
solution would be a good compromise situation for me and my shop.
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Maverick ubiquity lacks option to change computer name
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/628087
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I understand Mark's solution of adding the MAC address (or something) on
as a suffix to the machine name to prevent name collisions, but I think
that it would add yet more clutter to the machine name. As it stands
now, a long username with "-desktop" is already too much text when using
the command
Thanks for the response Mark, this will make running things in our
corporate environment much easier.
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Maverick ubiquity lacks option to change computer name
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/628087
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I doubt that adding more use cases to this thread will matter much, but I must
mention that this bug coupled with the inability to easily change host names
creates problems for those of us attempting to use Ubuntu in a more corporate
environment. We set up Ubuntu to authenticate against our Act
Public bug reported:
There seems to be no way to assign your machine a machine name during
installation on 10.10. As an administrator of many machines running
Ubuntu, it is a real pain to not have the ability to name them.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: emacs23
I have two machines running Emacs23 (one Ubuntu 9.10x64, the other Windows XP),
both with the same stuff installed and the same .emacs file; however, I am
having a problem with the Ubuntu machine and bibtex. When I bibtex a LaTeX
file, emacs f
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: indicator-me
Running the latest version of Lucid, I removed all of the ubuntu-one
programs from my system. The indicator-me menu entry for ubunto-one is
still present (though it does nothing when clicked).
** Affects: indicator-me (Ubuntu)
Importan
