Hi Alex,I would be interested in a short presentation on "modern" network methods. For instance, I have never used Avahi, and did not know what it was intended to be used for.Would it also be suitable for use in a small office, say 3 to 100 staff? This could be at the Jan meeting, or Fev if the college can't find us a room in time for Jan. All my very best,Rob -- Rob Echlin, B. Eng. 613-266-8311 - Ottawa, ONhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/rob_echlin/ - http://talksoftware.wordpress.com On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 4:39 PM, J C Nash <profjcnash [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: Thanks to all for quick responses. Alex' suggestion of hostname.local works well for sshfs, and makes a lot of sense. I'll use that. My local static IP was around since early 2000s on whatever "server" I set up on my LAN to try out different things and share files. Some scripts will need changing, but in a very minor way. I'll have to check out what address to use for apache or other httpd server, but I only need that once a year or so. His other comments reflect what I've been finding, namely, multiple approaches in different distros rather tripping all over each other. I was assuming an approach that clearly has gone away. However, it looks like some of the control GUI stuff is out of date, so just confusing everything. Best, JN _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux