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Re: Name resolution on Debian/Windows network



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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:28:40PM -0700, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> 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?

It's using NetBIOS name resolution, Windows is learning hostnames from
smb.

> 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.

Internet Connection Sharing provides DHCP.  I recommend running DHCP
on whatever machine has the internet connection, but only on the
internal interface.  I strongly advise against using Windows as your
gateway.

- -- 
 .''`.     Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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