hostname resolution

From: Curtis Matz (curtis_at_XmatzzoneX.com)
Date: 11/28/03 

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:23:17 GMT

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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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