[clug] Scp

Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 17:04:59 MST 2015


On 05/02/15 04:32, Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
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> 
> Also I find the numeric addresses clumsy. For example, the phone says
> that its host-name is "om-gta02". How for example might I ask the PC to
> call it that instead of "192.168.0.202"?
> 
Sure.
As root copy and paste the following into a terminal:-
echo "192.168.0.200 om-gta02 phone" >> /etc/hosts

Now your applications will regard "phone" OR "om-gta02" as 192.168.0.200

Kind regards


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