On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:57:22 -0500, Seb wrote: (...) > To get the canonical_hostname I thought I'd easily get it by typing > "dnshostname" when logged into the remote laptop, but that returns > nothing, and "domainname" returns '(none)'. Just a side note. You can run "hostname" to get the name of the target machine. Greetings, -- Camaleón