[ubuntu-uk] Minor SSH Issue

[Jim Price]

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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JimP