Confused on windows verses Linux networking

[Alex Snow]

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try setting up a dnss erver on your local network...bind is pretty 
easy to configure and even easier if you use webmin.
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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