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.
Thanks to everyone who replied. I've learned from your suggestions. Several people suggested populating /etc/hosts, but I can't do that because I'm using DHCP. I figure DHCP is running on the Windows NT machine (which is the one with the Internet connection) because it's the only one whose IP address never changes. Samba is installed and working. I am able to share from any machine to any machine. One post suggested setting up my own bind. I don't know where to start with this. There is only a hub in my system, no router or switch. Here's some new information that I think is significant: When I ping linuxA from linuxA, I get a response, but the IP number is 127.0.0.1, not the IP number that has been assigned by the DHCP server. I understand that it is picking up the number from /etc/hosts. That seems appropriate because /etc/host.conf contains order hosts,bind, which tells the name resolver to look first in hosts. If I take hosts out of the line (leaving only bind), I get the same result because the resolver is still looking in hosts (perhaps because bind is not running?). I also noticed that hostname --fqdn on linuxA returns only linuxA (not linuxA.domain.com). I put domain.com in resolv.conf, but that entry has no effect on the output of hostname. I have a feeling that I am one step from a solution to the problem, but I'm not sure what these clues mean. -- Jeffrey Barish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
