When I use username@ipaddress everthing works frine, but when I try to use username@computername I got nothing. It would really be a lot easier to use the computer/server name rather than walk over to the other machine and check the ip evertime. Any ideas? From everything I've read username@computername should work just fine.
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Jump to PostTo me this sounds more like a DNS issue than a ssh issue.
If you don't have a dns server on your private LAN with the proper records entered then you will have to use the IP address. You can also define all of the PCs on your LAN in …
Jump to Postkeep in mind that its not username@computername, its username@hostname. the reason why I am making this distinction is because the host name is a fully qualified DNS name, not just a computer name. For example, this string user1@Server1 is not the same as user1@Server1.domain.com.
If you are fully qualifying the …
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