>>>>> "tim" == tim <[email protected]> writes:
tim> Ubuntu does something that I don't understand, and it's biting me tim> at the moment. tim> I'm writing this from a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04. I have a tim> Linksys WRT54G router. Last week, my office machine was running tim> Ubuntu 12.04, named "servo". This machine would identify it as tim> "servo.local", so I could "ping servo.local", "ssh tim> [email protected]", "svn <command> svn://servo.local/<repository>", tim> etc. I had Samba running on the office machine, and could see it tim> from this computer's file browser. tim> The need to upgrade to 14.04 was pressing, so I upgraded the tim> office machine to Lubuntu 14.04, and installed Samba. tim> Now I can see Servo from this computer, and I can get to its tim> files using Samba, but all the "pure linux" apps can't identify tim> it by name -- even though I can ping my wife's Windows machine by tim> name!!! tim> Does anyone know how to resolve this? We use the office machine tim> as our svn server and I have my kid writing software for me this tim> summer. If worse comes to absolute worst I'll just assign the tim> thing an ethernet address off the router's DHCP table, but I'd tim> rather not have to manage a bunch of fixed IP addresses if I can tim> help it. What is the Linksys WRT54G running? Is it the stock firmware or something else? In OpenWrt land, you can configure "static" dhcp leases and DNS records. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
