Remote Desktop Preferances uses localhost

[Erik Bågfors]

What does hostname -f give you?
I bet it gives you localhost.localdomain
Change the line
"127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain ....... " to 
"127.0.0.1 whatever.I.want.com localhost.localdomain" and it should work. 

You shouldn't really need localhost.localdomain but I just left it
anyway. Feel free to remove it.  Should work just as fine.

/Erik


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:51:09 +0100, Mark C <lists at funkypenguin.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just generally playing with some some of the apps in gnome 2.8 and
> tried out Vino, It works ok, except that it gives out the vnc server
> name as: localhost.localdomain:0
> 
> I cannot seem to find any GConf keeop to alter the setting either.
> also the Help is broken, will enter this in bugzilla.
> 
> It could just be me, but this is a complete waste of time, if you send
> this to anyone, then all they are going to end up doing is to trying to
> connect to themselfs, rather than the target machine (ok, it's still a
> waste of time, if you send this to someone outside your own network, as
> you will probably be using a class C address).
> 
> I'm not sure whether this is an actual error, but wouldn't this be
> better to gather several options, either the actual hostname of the
> machine and/or the IP address, as this will generally only be used in
> internal situations, as the connection will be unencrypted, if system
> admins allow VNC to come/out into their internal network, then they need
> to be shot anyway :)
> 
> Mark
> 
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