Attached devices name

[hannah3]

Just set up my Now TV Hub Two, and it appears to work OK, with one problem so far.

If I look at Mainentance -> Attached Devices most of the devices have a name of "UNKNOWN". These devices are all running Linux, and it would appear that when I log onto these devices the router has changed the hostname to UNKNOWN.

How do I stop this happening ? or tell the router what the hostname is so that the internal DNS can save my typing in the full i/p address

Thanks

[hannah3 · Accepted solution]

OK. I know it is bad form to reply to ones own messages but no-one replied and I have solved it.

the file /etc/network/interfaces needs a hostname so something like...

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
hostname fred-wifi

will give tell the Now_TV box the device name and also set up a DNS entry

[Jayach]

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@hannah3 wrote:

OK. I know it is bad form to reply to ones own messages but no-one replied and I have solved it.

Not bad form at all, anyone searching with a similar problem will find it useful.