castalla wrote: > Is there any way to get these devices to broadcast a host name across my > network?
Not really. The devices only have an IP address, either statically assigned by you or dynamically assigned by a DHCP server on your network. They aren't like Windows computers that will broadcast their host name to other Windows computers, one of which ends up maintaining a Browse list of Windows machines on the network. If you want to assign a host name to them and have other computers resolve this name to an IP address, you could run a local DNS server. It will either have static, manually updated A records for local hosts or be configured to accept dynamic updates from your DHCP server. It will also have to be configured to use one or more forwarders (DNS servers at your ISP, OpenDNS, Google, etc.) to resolve names for hosts not on your network, as in the entire Internet. Then each of your computers/devices would be configured to use it for DNS. Alternatively, you can use a hosts or lmhosts file on each computer to resolve host names to IP addresses on your network. For a small number of devices that don't change IP addresses often, it's not too difficult to keep them up to date. Each computer/device would be configured to use your ISP's DNS servers but would use the contents of the hosts/lmhosts file for local resolution. Win7Pro(x64)[3.3Ghz i5, 8GB RAM, 120GB SSD system, 15TB storage], LMS 7.7.3 -> Logitech Squeezebox Classic V.3 -> Cambridge Audio DacMagic -> NAD C160 -> 2 x NAD C272 -> Quad 22L2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ get.amped's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10022 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101562 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
