Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > 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). > > Bye > -- > Haim
Alas, the DHCP server is one of the Windows machines. Funny thing is, I'm not even sure which one -- how would one know? I suspect that it's the Windows NT machine (the other is Windows 98). Clearly, some software somewhere in Windows-land is resolving the names for the Windows machines. Why doesn't it do the same for the Linux machine? What is the software that does it? How can I figure out where it resides? Perhaps I should make the linux machine the DHCP server. However, I hate fiddling with network settings in Windows-land as that portion of the network is working fine. -- Jeffrey Barish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
