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During installation you must provide a domain name. Some documentation suggests home.com, but I often use home.local just so that OpenDNS doesn't try to connect me to the real home.com when I have troubles.

Anyway, my question is based on the recent question on the list... how do I change my domain name after installation?

The final answer was basically having to reinstall Amahi - but even then perhaps we can get a thread here that describes the process. I know how to manually change a name, but I'm ignorant of how deep this goes into Amahi.

It goes pretty deep, as it affects

• samba (names for the workgroup in lmhosts)
• each web app foo has a ServerAlias of foo.home.com in the conf
• networking/dns also needs reconfiguration
• then services need to be restarted, and last but not least,
• it will not take effect until the clients refresh their leases

We have mechanisms to re-generate those configurations (hda-install file, restarting services, etc.), however, they are not all "hooked together" in a single point that can seamlessly trigger a reconfiguration when the name is changed.

Then some non-amahi-specific services may "acquire" the local name and may need to be restarted (perhaps cupsd, or mysql, or mt-daapd, nfsd, etc.). We don't know how many of these there may be.

It's non trivial, since this was not a design goal, basically.

This was a good question and I think you Amahi Guys need to put more emphasis on the selection of this domain name in your install directions since it is such a non-trivial thing to change after install. I personally installed with home.com not realizing it couldn't be changed easily. I then changed to Rauch.com, which is what is seen by my Windows machines, but if you look at their IP's it still references home.com. After all the hoops I had to jump through just to get this installed, (dealing with Fedora 9 PGP bugs and updates.) I think I am going to punt - remove Amahi and go back to FreeNas. Not to mention FreeNas doesn't use 3 gigs of my storage space like Amahi. But the product has come along way! Cheers!

EdR

thanks for your feedback, ed. this is important to point out.
will put more emphasis on that in the install process.