Monique Y. Herman wrote: > 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. > Interesting theory, but the machines are connected via smb. Thanks for the suggestion, though. -- Jeffrey Barish
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