Remote login to Linux from Windows 98

I have a linux machine on a lan with a bunch of Windows 98 machines. The ip
addresses are dynamically assigned to each machine. I want to login to the
linux machine from a Win98 machine without having to first determine the ip
address assigned to the linux machine. Is there a way to identify the linux
machine by name so that I can login using Putty without knowing the ip
address of the linux box?

Larry wrote:

> Is there a way to identify the linux
> machine by name so that I can login using Putty without knowing the ip
> address of the linux box?

You have to use Dynamic DNS.
One of this service (AFAIK for free) is brought to you by www.dyndns.org.
Register a dynamic sub domain, install a dyndns updater on the Linux box
and point your putty to mydomain.dyndsdomain.dom.

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On 2004-09-07, Larry <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I have a linux machine on a lan with a bunch of Windows 98 machines. The ip
> addresses are dynamically assigned to each machine. I want to login to the
> linux machine from a Win98 machine without having to first determine the ip
> address assigned to the linux machine. Is there a way to identify the linux
> machine by name so that I can login using Putty without knowing the ip
> address of the linux box?

Sounds like a job for DNS...

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In comp.os.linux.networking Diesis <(E-Mail Removed)> suggested:
> Larry wrote:

>> Is there a way to identify the linux
>> machine by name so that I can login using Putty without knowing the ip
>> address of the linux box?

> You have to use Dynamic DNS.
> One of this service (AFAIK for free) is brought to you by www.dyndns.org.
> Register a dynamic sub domain, install a dyndns updater on the Linux box
> and point your putty to mydomain.dyndsdomain.dom.

Either that or if not possible, write a short script monitoring
from cron the IP and sending you a mail if it changes, with the
new value. On the other hand dhcp allows to use dns on your "own"
DNS server if configured correctly.

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John Thompson wrote:
> On 2004-09-07, Larry <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>I have a linux machine on a lan with a bunch of Windows 98 machines. The ip
>>addresses are dynamically assigned to each machine. I want to login to the
>>linux machine from a Win98 machine without having to first determine the ip
>>address assigned to the linux machine. Is there a way to identify the linux
>>machine by name so that I can login using Putty without knowing the ip
>>address of the linux box?
>
>
> Sounds like a job for DNS...
>

If you have access to the Linux box you just can make a reverse
DNS and you'll have the name your ISP it's given to you in that
moment. You can connect from the net using that name. There are
some tricks like taking this name and publishing in a public
web page or ftp server and take it with a script, but it's easier
to follow the advice someone else has given to you and use dyndns
then.


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"Larry" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<GTo%c.12733$(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> I have a linux machine on a lan with a bunch of Windows 98 machines. The ip
> addresses are dynamically assigned to each machine. I want to login to the
> linux machine from a Win98 machine without having to first determine the ip
> address assigned to the linux machine. Is there a way to identify the linux
> machine by name so that I can login using Putty without knowing the ip
> address of the linux box?

In case you are using a dhcp on a linux machine it can be very easy in
the way that you give a name to the dhcpcd daemon (or other similar
daemons like pump)

eg: dhcpcd -d eth0 -h linuxmachine


and your dhcp server can register that name. An example you can find
at http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/ddns.htm also the manpages of
dhcpd.conf can
help. The dns and dhcpd don't have to be on the same computer. Off
course you need to have some access to your dhcp server although some
black boxes might support it.