On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:18:38AM -0800, Mike Cherba wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 10:54 -0800, Matthew Jarvis wrote:
> > There's probably a way to give Winders a static host table entry, but
> > I don't know it. I just spent a few minutes clicking through the
> > control panels but didn't see anything.
>
> There is a way Depending on the version of windows, there is a text mode
> hosts file buried in the Windows system directories.
>
> Windows XP C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
> Windows 2K C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
> Win 98/ME C:\WINDOWS
>
> you can an entry there just like you would in linux or any other
> unixlike OS.
You know, there is a simpler way to do that than creating manual hosts
files for a bunch of random machines..
Install Bonjour for Windows, then set up mdnsresponder or workalike on
Linux. Do nothing for Macs, they just do what they should. Zeroconf
networking is really, really useful. It's just unfortunately not quite
ZERO conf when dealing with Linux. It would be if dists would add a few
lines of code to their daemons to register themselves with the local mDNS
responder.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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