ssh question

[Colin Law]

On 4 October 2016 at 15:03, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I have a raspberry pi that runs max2play.  My router sees this device as
> 'max2play'. However if I try to ssh to it from my Ubuntu machine,
> ssh root at max2play gives:
> 'Could not resolve hostname max2play: Name or service not known'
> I can, of course connect using the IP address.

You may be able to use max2play.local, try
ping max2play.local
it depends on whether max2play provides avahi (at least I think that
is what it is). With standard raspbian this works.

Colin