On 27 December 2010 08:40, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> When accessing machines on the local network you can use >> computername.local as the host name. > > If avahi-daemon's running. True, which I think it is by default is it not? Colin