Steve:
What you want is dynamic DNS, or WINS. STN does neither... Assuming you
have at least SOME NT boxes on your network, you could configure the NT box
to be the WINS server. Then, when your PC's come online, they will get a
DHCP address from STN, and announce that address to the WINS server. When
you try to address a node by name, your PC will check DNS first, then WINS,
and will get the address. (This behavior can be reversed, BTW) Of course,
this is all assuming you're using Microsoft products... If you're not, then
replace all my WINS references with Dynamic DNS (DDNS) under *nix.
-Jim
PS: Are you the Steve Rosen married to my cousin Kim? If so, that would be a
small and wierd world...
> As far as the static IPs - that means that I have to configure
> the actual stationary machines with static IPs. I guess I'm
> looking to have STN do everything for me: I want all machines to
> be configured for DHCP, but have STN hand the same IPs out to the
> machines that are listed in its
> DNS table; This way I can reference all the stationary machines
> by their node name when using the various tools (ftp, telnet, ping...).
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