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I know absolutely nothing about remote access to a desktop. I've just set up a machine with Ubuntu installed which I wish to run calculations on remotely.

I've installed openssh-server and opened port 22. I can now successfully access the desktop remotely using the command

ssh username@IPADDRESS

But I have a couple of questions:

1) Since this machine is connected to a network, I'm worried the IP address may change - how do I make it static?

2) (And more importantly). It would be a lot easier if it wasn't an IP address used to ssh to the machine. How do I change it from an IP address to something like:

ssh username@MACHINENAME.university.address

Some machines here already have this set up but I'm not quite sure how to do it.

Thank you

user1147964
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Read this to get a static IP: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration#Configuring_the_interface_manually

Let's assume you got the static IP 192.168.1.22

And then on your computer, enter this line in /etc/hosts:

192.168.1.22        MACHINENAME.university.address MACHINENAME

And you can access via either MACHINENAME.university.address or MACHINENAME from your computer.

Daniel
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