Confused on windows verses Linux networking

[Jared Stofflett]

Ok, this makes things more interesting. This machine has to go onto a
network ran by windows 2000 server for dns, so hopefully I can just use
ifconfig to set the machine a static ip and the dns server on windows 2000
can give it a nice name.

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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Gregory Nowak
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 7:28 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: Confused on windows verses Linux networking

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The way I understand things,  you need to be on a domain of some sort, be it
a private one, since you can't just use host names. I use the domain
lan.lan, which works fine here. However, if you want to access machines by
name like you describe, you will need to either mess with /etc/hosts, or
setup a name server using bind for example.

Greg


On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 06:30:41PM -0400, Jared Stofflett wrote:
> I have two Linux boxes, both running fedora core 2. One is meant as a 
> windows file server so runs samba, and has the line in smb.conf that 
> reads something like Hostname=dataServer I know that this creates a 
> NetBIOS name which is used to brows networks in windows. I have 
> another Linux box that I'm trying to run as a local web server, so 
> it's really stripped down. All windows clients are going to be 
> accessing it through internet explorer. I do not want to start to run 
> samba, but would like to have an easier way to access it then having 
> to type in
> 192.168.0.109
> I know I was able to access stuff on the box running samba by doing
> http://dataServer:901
> TO get to swatt, using the NetBIOS name as a fully qualified domain name.
> Unfortunately all the stuff I've read about hostnames under Linux is 
> yourComputer.yourDomain.someOtherDomain.com
> Is there a way to set the computer to ignore domains so that 
> everything on the same subnet such as 192.168.0.xxx will be able to do 
> the following http://webserver Where webserver is the Linux box that 
> isn't running samba.
> Everything I've read says I'd have to do http://webserver.mydomain.com 
> Which assumes I own a domain, which I do not, and am not going to.
> appreciate any help with this.
> 
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