Changing hostnames

[steve1961]

I'm in the process of setting up filesharing on a home network of four linux only PCs using NFS. All connect to a router by wires or wirelessly and receive their ip addresses from the router by dhcp. Because these can change on reboot it would be useful if all the machines had different hostnames for identification on the network. At the moment they are all localhost.localdomain or something similar. Is it possible to change these to idetifiable names without screwing up my network and the shared internet connection?

[axelseap]

open system-config-network go to the dns tab and where u see localhost.localdomain change that to something else

[steve1961]

Originally Posted by axelseap

open system-config-network go to the dns tab and where u see localhost.localdomain change that to something else

Thanks, does the localdomain part need to be the same for all the machines on the network?

[axelseap]

i'm not positive...but if you do make it the same i doubt it'll hurt anything

[steve1961]

Originally Posted by axelseap

i'm not positive...but if you do make it the same i doubt it'll hurt anything

many thanks.