On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:55 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:16:46 +0100
>
> Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> > I have always used static addressing because I have never been able to
> > work out how clients can be addressed by hostname when there is no
> > fstab entry.
> >
> > Surely the DNS server has to be made aware of the dhcp clients so it
> > can resolve hostnames for other clients.
>
> Hmmm, that's a good question, in Windows we had that NetBIOS thing that
> would automatically resolve hostnames to IPs. I've never had a problem
> calling other hosts on my LAN by name though, but that's probably
> because Samba takes care of it.
Guys, I'm confused now. Are you saying you can't (for example) ping by name a
computer on your LAN? I can here....I can do:
ping darkforce
ping darkforce2
ping darkforce3
and it works fine. I don't have to do the IP address.
PS and what does fstab have to do with it?
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