On Thursday, 28 August 2003, at 05:41AM, Stroller wrote:
On Wednesday, 27 August 2003, at 19:39PM, Tom Hosiawa wrote:
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.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"
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!
HTH,
Stroller.
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