Jeffrey Barish wrote: > 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. if your dhcp server is the linux, you can use a package like dhcp-dns or something similar (depending on what dns server you're using).
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