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Fw: Tweaking the hostname possible?
- From: "Erik Anderson" <erikba at teamworkgroup dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 13:26:21 -0700
- Subject: Fw: Tweaking the hostname possible?
I don't think that this issue is a Cygwin/X issue, even though the symptoms
involve the problem...
I am currently on a WinXP machine named squire, which (using a DHCP server
on a different machine), is fully DNS resolvable, as is its FQDN of
squire.vpn
I have setup an XDM server on another machine on the local LAN to which I
have attempted to connect to using Cygwin/X. I received a number of
authentication errors until I googled an answer saying that my hostname was
not being resolved. My Cygwin bash prompt says 'Erik@Squire ~'. Adding
Squire to the other machine's /etc/hosts corrected the issue, and I was able
to connect.
Now, much as I would like to add and maintain a list of all the machines and
their DHCP-resolved IP addresses with the first letter capitalized, is there
a better way of changing or otherwise informing Cygwin that the WinXP
hostname should not be capitalized? The hostname command failed with a
"this system lacks the functionality", and I accept that answer as long as
there is some way of filtering out WinXP's "user friendliness" when it comes
to hostnames...
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