On Thursday 08 December 2005 08:01 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

> I think you are missing something here. He is using
> fish://192.168.0.3 or fish://newmachine in Konqueror to make a
> connection using ssh to another machine. fish: is used like http:
> or ftp: when specifying an URL. It works about like using Konqueror
> to connect to a FTP server - you can brows directories, and
> transfer files.

Hi Mikkel! Never used Fish, so...point taken. :-)

> If he were using static IP addresses, or if the DHCP server on the
> router can be configured to always give the same IP address based
> on the MAC address, then he can add entries in /etc/hosts to let him
> use host names instead of IP addresses. If he says with dynamic IP
> addresses, then he will need to get the zero config software working
> correctly in order to use hostnames. What may be happening is that
> the dhcp client is overwriting /etc/resolv.conf, so he is trying to
> use the router's name server to look up local host names.
>
> Mikkel

I've never used the zero config stuff. Seemed to be more trouble than it was 
worth.

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