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Re: Domain question



> I don't really care yet about any kind of centralized user management or
> whatnot, what I care about is for the machines to be able to see each
> other by machinename...

You can put the name and IP of every machine into /etc/host on every other
machine, or you can install a dhcp server on one of them.

> right now I have to go by IP, which aren't reserved so it's kind of a
> pain.

There are IP ranges reserved specifically for LANs such as yours.  Use
numbers in the 192.168.xxx.xxx or 10.xxx.xxx.xxx ranges.
-- 
John Hasler



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