On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 05:11:29PM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:54:13PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 07:48:43PM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > > Isn't that what nmbd does? Personally, I prefer not to run nmbd because > I'd rather save the memory. My router (openwrt) already runs dnsmasq > that, as somebody else mentioned, has dynamic dns updates from dhcp. > There have been other situations where I have used the hosts file in > windows, like if the router cannot run dnsmasq and I don't want to setup > another machine for it.
I think you are right. brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
