On Thursday 28 August 2003 13:54, Stroller wrote: > On Thursday, 28 August 2003, at 05:41AM, Stroller wrote: > > On Wednesday, 27 August 2003, at 19:39PM, Tom Hosiawa wrote: > >>>> I have two computers behind a Linksys router that runs as a dhcp > >>>> server, > >>>> I'm wondering how I can make the computer name resolve to its ip > >>>> address? > >>>> > >>>> For example, if I want to ping my desktop I can just go "ping > >>>> desktop_name" rather then "ping 192.168.1.100" > >>> > >>> ... > > > > The one good thing to be said for a Windows network is that these > > steps are unnecessary - Client For MS Networks seems to take care of > > hostname -> IP translation for hosts discovered by broadcast on the > > network. You might investigate Samba to see if it has these > > capabilities. > > FYI: unless I am misunderstanding what WINS is, section 7 (Name > Resolution Options) of /etc/samba/smb.conf suggests that such a > configuration is possible under Linux. I think you could perhaps find > the solution simply by emerging & configuring this package - but if you > have never configured Samba before, it can be a little tricky!
WINS will broadcast to find SMB computers' NetBIOS names. This will not help with pinging and such - all it allows is being able to refer to a machine by NetBIOS name when using tools like smbmount. As of Win2K/ADS, WINS has been depracated in favour of dynamic registration in DNS by the clients. This, however, still requires at least one static IP - the DNS server. I believe BIND9 has support for DNS registration (part of IPv6 isn't it?) and but all of this is a little bit of an overkill for 2 machines behind 1 router, no? Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
