On Mon,11.Aug.08, 10:37:58, Shachar Or wrote: > On Monday 11 August 2008 10:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > 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 :) > > While your router doesn't have a DNS name server it doesn't mean you won't be > able to use names in your network. > > You can set up a name server in one the the hosts in the network, for example, > in the Debian box. I use dnsmasq for this because it is easy to configure and > it can also be a dhcp server. Dear Shachar, Please read my post again, especially the "either ... or" part ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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