Re: [ubuntu-uk] Filezilla Issue
On 4 January 2012 22:11, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I use Filezilla to transfer files around my home network. Normally, when setting up a transfer, I can identify each target device in the Server Name field by its host name. However I've recently acquired a new PC and, when running Filezilla on it, can only identify the target device by its IP address. I can't for the life of me remember what I've done in the past to ensure the target device host names are recognised. Can anybody enlighten me? I don't know about Filezilla but if the machine's name is dumbo then you should be able to reference it by dumbo.local in any app. For example you can use ssh dumbo.local to ssh to it. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Filezilla Issue
Well this is all to do with name resolution services. If you have all your machines getting their IP address from a NAT router device, then this will be assigning IP addresses. Some od these will also maintain a DNS entry for the machine names that t assignes, usally you need to specify a domain to the router and then it becomes the canonical source for these names. Set this to something that is not a valid domain, like home.lan and then your machines will all be computer name.home.lan Alternatively use windows name resolution. First you need to set up one machine as a domain server, this should be a linx machine with samba-server installed, There are some good guides on setting up the server and then you can manage all the logins to all machines, as well. This will include the winbind service which will perform the name lookups. so if this is in place then windows machines will be able to see all the other machines and workgroups that are windows or running samba. To get the name resolution working in Linux you may have to configure /etc/nsswitch.conf; In the hosts line you need to add a wins entry. Hope this helps -- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143 On 5 January 2012 09:37, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 4 January 2012 22:11, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I use Filezilla to transfer files around my home network. Normally, when setting up a transfer, I can identify each target device in the Server Name field by its host name. However I've recently acquired a new PC and, when running Filezilla on it, can only identify the target device by its IP address. I can't for the life of me remember what I've done in the past to ensure the target device host names are recognised. Can anybody enlighten me? I don't know about Filezilla but if the machine's name is dumbo then you should be able to reference it by dumbo.local in any app. For example you can use ssh dumbo.local to ssh to it. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Filezilla Issue
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 18:05 +, Stuart Ward wrote: Well this is all to do with name resolution services. If you have all your machines getting their IP address from a NAT router device, then this will be assigning IP addresses. Some od these will also maintain a DNS entry for the machine names that t assignes, usally you need to specify a domain to the router and then it becomes the canonical source for these names. Set this to something that is not a valid domain, like home.lan and then your machines will all be computer name.home.lan Alternatively use windows name resolution. There's also avahi-daemon (that implements zeroconf specs), and it will provide services such as multicast DNS and autodiscovery services. I guess it depends on the client (I don't know if filezilla uses it!), but some important software support Avahi (ie. Gnome VFS, and because of that... Ubuntu and Unity). First time I tried avahi-browse (it's a small command line tool), I was very surprised. We have some Mac OS laptops in our office network and they were advertising resources such as music libraries without the owners knowing about it :) Regards, Juan -- jjm's home: http://www.usebox.net/jjm/ blackshell: http://blackshell.usebox.net/ en_GB@blog: http://engbblog.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Filezilla Issue
Hi I use Filezilla to transfer files around my home network. Normally, when setting up a transfer, I can identify each target device in the Server Name field by its host name. However I've recently acquired a new PC and, when running Filezilla on it, can only identify the target device by its IP address. I can't for the life of me remember what I've done in the past to ensure the target device host names are recognised. Can anybody enlighten me? Thanks very much. Nige -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Filezilla Issue
On 04/01/12 22:11, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi I use Filezilla to transfer files around my home network. Normally, when setting up a transfer, I can identify each target device in the Server Name field by its host name. However I've recently acquired a new PC and, when running Filezilla on it, can only identify the target device by its IP address. I can't for the life of me remember what I've done in the past to ensure the target device host names are recognised. Can anybody enlighten me? Thanks very much. Nige is this info stored in something like /etc/hosts ? Paul -- -- http://www.zleap.net Join the revolution, switch to Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Filezilla Issue
On 4 January 2012 22:11, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I use Filezilla to transfer files around my home network. Normally, when setting up a transfer, I can identify each target device in the Server Name field by its host name. However I've recently acquired a new PC and, when running Filezilla on it, can only identify the target device by its IP address. I can't for the life of me remember what I've done in the past to ensure the target device host names are recognised. Can anybody enlighten me? Add Bonjour support to the PC: http://support.apple.com/en_US/downloads/#bonjour for windows then it will be visible through zeroconf/avahi. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood post-apocalyptic allen keys -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
