On Sun,10.Aug.08, 20:33:29, tyler wrote: > > If your router knows DNS then it might be enough to enable the > > 'send host-name' directive in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf (with the correct > > value of course). > > > > Well, that got the router to recognize the hostname, but not the > domainname. I'll look into the dhcp documentation and see if I can sort > out the rest. But can you access the Windows machine by name? Before writing my previous post I experimented with my own router. No matter what I tried, I couldn't access the other machine by name. It seems that my router does not have DNS capabilities, so I can either use one of my machines as DNS or just populate /etc/hosts, which for two machines is more than manageable :) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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