On 02/03/15 23:38, Nigel Verity wrote:
Hi
I've just set up a laptop with Ubuntu MATE and I'm having a minor problem with
SSH. I can access any device on my home network by IP address but for some
reason the host names are not recognised. Using other Ubuntu flavours and Mint
I've always been able to access devices by hostname immediately without any
explicit configuration e.g myDesktop.local, myNetbook.local and so on.
Can anybody advise on how to get the hostnames recognised?
It sounds like Ubuntu MATE doesn't install avahi by default, if that was
how your other machines were doing it. Very few home routers provide
local network DNS by default, so avahi is the most likely way it's doing
it. You can check by seeing what avahi packages are installed on one of
the other machines, and installing those on you MATE machine.
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