I appreciate ALL the suggestions, wow! Since I am "playing" the network, I'll give all the alternative a try, isn't it the way that we learn stuff? :-)
Thanks again, Hai On 10/2/07, Brian Lavender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
