Your xp box most liekely does use dns, Im not even sure if you can
disable it in 2000/XP.
Anyways....
Here is one solution.......(this should work)
1. Go to DynDNS.org and sign up for a free account.
a. You need to pick a domain/host e.g. linuxbox1.dyndns.org
b. You will need one of these for each box.
2. Download one of their unix/linux update client tools.
3. Install the tool on a linux box.
4. Configure the dns client to update the dns with it's PRIVATE IP address.
IMPORTANT you need it to post it's LAN IP, I haven't done this
with any of the linux tools but I will guess that it is possible in
most of them, might even be the default?
5. On your vnc viewer type linuxbox1.dyndns.org
Why it works - DNS Systems don't usually care if an IP is routable or
not. Therefore, the linux client will send 192.168.x.x (or whatever)
as its IP to the DNS server. When your vnc client looks up
domain.dyndns.org and gets 192.168.x.x which it tries to access and,
of course it can. It's easy to forget that dns is really way outside
how normal networking works, it is truly it's own system, independant
for networking and the Internet.
Good Luck,
Angelo
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:28:57 -0500, Zach Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Arun wrote:
> > I physically goto the linux machine and lookup what
> > the ip address is. All these machines sit besides me
> > in the lab.
> >
>
> To get the IP Address of a linux box, open a xterm or something similar
> and try:
>
> ifconfig
>
> If that doesn't work try:
>
> . /sbin/ifconfig
>
> If that doesn't work then you most likely don't have privileges. I don't
> use *Nix GUI so I can't help you there.
>
> Zach
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