On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 at 22:01 GMT, Jeffrey Barish penned: > I have 3 computers on my home network. The Windows machines are > connected to each other using ICS. I can ping one Windows machine > from another Windows machine simply by naming the destination: > > ping windowsB > > from machine windowsA will elicit a response. I can also ping my > Linux machine from a Windows machine by name: > > ping linuxA > > from machine windowsA will elicit a response. However, I cannot ping > one of the Windows machines by name from the Linux machine, only by IP > number. I get the message 'unknown host windowsA.' I am using DHCP > to assign IP numbers on the network, so it is important that I be able > to reach machines by name as the IP numbers change. I'm not even sure > where to start looking to resolve this problem, so any guidance would > be appreciated.
I think this "pingability" comes from smb? On a windows machine, once you've accessed a machine using smb (windows file sharing), I believe the sharing name of the computer becomes accessible for network utilities. I could be totally wrong; this is just what I (believe I have) observed on a windows-and-linux network. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
