Responses below -------------- When asking even basic questions like these, it is helpful to mention which Linux distro you are using. Since you didn't, I will try to give you generic Linux responses. But the major distros have their own config sustems, and their own peculiar kinks, so you might find some of this either slightly off the mark or less helpful than it might be if we knew more. ------- RedHat 7.3
Actually, I would have expected it to read "localhost.localdomain", with the first part the hostname, the second part the domain (network) name. ----------- It Does. So the names on an internal network are meaningless. For instance it could be set to myserver.mynetwork. Does the windows workgroup mean anything to Linux? In this context, "reference" is a meaningless word. So I'm only replying to your "for instance". ---------------- I do not see how reference is meaningless in this context. I wish to "reference" the server by name rather then by ipaddress. It depends on how the "M$" workstation resolves names. Either put it in the Windows workstations hosts file (which translates between hostnames and IP addresses locally) or add it to the appropriate file on your DNS server. Without knowing more about your LAN (or your Internet conenction, if you are talking about pinging from teh Internet), I can't be more specific. ----------------- This server resides on a peep-to-peer network. In the windows environment there is a master-browser that maintains a list of all the computers so they can be "referenced" by name rather the IP. This browser can change by standard M$ election rules. I do not want to add this server to every workstations hosts file especially because the ip is handed out from a router using dhcp. Which is also why I don't want to have to always do it by ip address. This is all for an internal network not the internet. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
