On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 07:48:43PM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:07:23PM -0400, Hai Yi wrote: > > This might be a very simple question, so forgive me if it is. > > > > I have two PCs at home. One is Ubuntu the other is Windows XP. > > > > Ubuntu machine has a name "zodiac", how can it makes it known to the > > Window XP machine? I want to install a tightvnc server on Ubuntu and a > > client on Windows so it can visit the Ubuntu. > > > > I guess I need to modify the hosts and network files on Win XP to > > include the IP and name of the Ubuntu machine? > > > Yes, that would work well. The Windows XP hosts file is > C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts > You can also use nmbd in samba to advertise your Ubuntu computer using > the Windows SMB protocol.
Not necessary. Netbios already broadcasts the name. -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
