hostname resolution

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I have a home network which consists of 2 Windows XP Home boxes, 1 Windows
2000 Pro box, and 1 Linux Mandrake 9.1 box. I have a Linksys router and
all of these boxes share the internet. DHCP and dns is handled by the
router. I've setup Samba on my Linux box so I can share resources between
all the boxes. I can't ping my Windows machines from my Linux machine but
from my Windows machines I can ping my Linux box by hostname even though
I'm not using a local dhcp server with ddns or a hosts file. From my Linux
box if I execute, smbclient -L zeus, it returns a list of shares on one of
my XP boxes. How can I configure my Linux box to resolve my other boxes
using a simple ping without configuring a bind server or hosts file similar
to the way my Windows boxes can resolve my Linux box by hostname?

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Curtis Matz wrote:

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> I have a home network which consists of 2 Windows XP Home boxes, 1 Windows
> 2000 Pro box, and 1 Linux Mandrake 9.1 box. I have a Linksys router and
> all of these boxes share the internet. DHCP and dns is handled by the
> router. I've setup Samba on my Linux box so I can share resources between
> all the boxes. I can't ping my Windows machines from my Linux machine but
> from my Windows machines I can ping my Linux box by hostname even though
> I'm not using a local dhcp server with ddns or a hosts file. From my Linux
> box if I execute, smbclient -L zeus, it returns a list of shares on one of
> my XP boxes. How can I configure my Linux box to resolve my other boxes
> using a simple ping without configuring a bind server or hosts file similar
> to the way my Windows boxes can resolve my Linux box by hostname?
>
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> Curtis
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I think you've overconstrained the problem.

Unless you want to manually transfer what the router does to the hosts file.


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