This one should be really easy, but it has me baffled. I'm supposed to
give my computer a "fully-qualified host name", and I don't know what name
to give it.
At the moment it is not connected to the Internet so I don't suppose it is
that important, but when I do get it connected (a task that will involve
recompiling the kernel with support for the Alcatel ADSL USB modem & I
anticipate much grief) it probably will. On the other hand, I won't be
using the system to provide any services outside the local area network
(192.168.1.0); my website is remotely hosted and I collect my mail from a
remote server, so no external clients need to use DNS to find my machine.
An additional possible complication: I use one ISP - call it isp.com -
for the connection (and outgoing mail); another company (call it
hostingco.com) hosts my webspace and mailboxes; while a third
(domainco.com) provides my domain names and forwards mail and http to
hostingco.com. (It just worked out cheaper that way).
So should the fully qualified host name be:
myhost.isp.com
myhost.hostingco.com
or
myhost.mydomain.com (where mydomain is registered with domainco.com)
Or doesn't it matter?
And where does the Samba workgroup name come in?
