Mandrake's behaviour is correct as far as I can see. It has no way to resolve hostnames (hosts file, nis, dns, ...).
As far as winDOS is concerned, I cannot answer exactly why it does work because I don't know your particular situation. Maybe it is because you use NetBUI or winbind. Most M$ networking features work through broadcasts, which seriously impacts the performance of a network when a large number of hosts are doing this (and is often incorrect). That is why they can use the preconfigured names. The Windos boxes intercept the broadcasts of all others. Linux does not. I don't know how you can find out where winDOS gets its resolution information... Kind regards Guy On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 23:11, Matthew O. Persico wrote: > I am using DHCP on my home network. The DHCP server is my Linksys wireless router. I >have XPPro (ethernet), XPHome (wireless ethernet) and Mandrake 9.0 (ethernet) on the >boxes. > > DHCP assigns addresses to all boxes. > I can ping all boxes by ip addresses from all boxes. > I can ping all boxes by name from the XP boxes. > When I ping by name on Mandrake, I get "unknown host". > I do not have any DNS servers running or any hosts files configured. > > Why does the Gates-ware figure out the names, but Linux does not? What other >information can I provide to be helpful? > -- > Matthew > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Guy Van Sanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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