On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2003 08:57 am, JoeHill wrote: > > well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't > > delved into it too much in Linux, but I believe Samba takes care of > > that. Correct me if I am wrong. I also can ping by name or IP, though I > > have no DNS (which I believe actually has nothing to do with it, that's > > for FQDN, ie. internet, not LAN) server running. > > Oh, I beg your pardon Joe, I didn't see where you guys were talking about > Samba use - I thought you meant just between 'Nix boxes. :-) > > I always put the IP address of each machine with an alias in /etc/hosts.
We were talking about Dhcp. Samba will resolve NETBIOS names for you which is entirely a different thing. By putting the names/adrresses in /etc/hosts you are using static addressing. derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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