Comments on: Ubuntu: How to Change the Computer Name

By: kalpesh

kalpesh — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:34:49 +0000

thnx buddy

By: Gil

Gil — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:20:36 +0000

Very simple and easy.

Thanks.

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remove Blueflare Antivirus — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:25:00 +0000

Change the computer name is easy.

By: gahh

gahh — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 01:24:00 +0000

You’re forgetting something.

Yet another reason why I switched from Ubuntu to Windows 7. Stuff Just Works.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:27:00 +0000

Well, this is the “official” way, Junior…at least for Debian and derivatives such as the *buntus, etc. There might be a GUI thingy out there somewhere to do it, but it’s just simple enough as it is:

Change the hosts file first and then change the hostname file. Then restart your networking and you’re all set.

1) From a command line: sudo gedit /etc/hosts – will give you something like:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
127.0.1.1 “computername”.”domain_name” “computername”

..change the “computername” parts to whatever you want and “domain_name” part if you have to/want to to make it complete….Then save it.

2) Run (also from command line): sudo gedit /etc/hostname
put your new hostname in where the old one was…and save this file, too.

3) Restart your computer or restart networking from the command line.

If you’re running RedHat or another flavor of Linux the process is pretty similar, just the filenames and details are different.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:19:00 +0000

Thanks!!

By: Dahc

Dahc — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:06:00 +0000

so whats the complete process? Do I change (sudo gedit /etc/hosts) this first or what? Sorry I’m new to Linux. I have to put this in the Terminal command line right. My IT guy did all of my Ubuntu stuff for me and he”s gone now and so am I. I need some training on Linux in general, any suggestions as to where to get it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:53:00 +0000

Is there an official way to do this instead of using a hack on the command line? Obviously this solution is not complete, as it does not change the hosts file. There should be an official GUI way to change the hostname that changes all relevant files at the same time.

By: Aniruddh

Aniruddh — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:34:00 +0000

Thanks