Re: Linksys CableDsl Router and DHCP etc.

From: CJT (abujlehc_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 06/07/04 

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:37:07 GMT

kung__fusion@hotmail.com wrote:

> I just installed a Linksys router to share broadband between
> a Windows "XP Home" and a Redhat Linux machine. The
> internet sharing is fine. What I'd like to do, if it can be
> done simply, is to keep the router and machines set up
> to use dynamic IP addressing but be able to refer to
> the machines on the Lan by name. All the solutions
> I could find using Google disable dynamic IP and
> require filling in the ISP nameserver IPs. I'd rather
> not do that since they tend to change and the ISP
> is really set up to dynamically query for the DNS
> server. Plus if I keep them dynamic if need be I
> can pull out the router and connect the NIC
> directly to the modem and get on the air easily
> again(as in the case of giving the older machine
> to somebody with broadband etc..)
>
> I want to be able to transfer files back and forth but
> I don't want to get into Samba setup right now since
> the Linux machine is likely to change to Mandrake
> and then another PC altogether, so I don't want
> to put too too much sweat into it. Just NFS or
> somehow lob files ocassionally back and forth.
> I'd rather not have to do the ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> url thing with FTP or something that clunky if
> I don't have to though. :)
>
> TIA
>

If you've only got a couple of machines, just put them in the
"hosts" files on each machine with their local IP addresses
and whatever names you choose. You don't need to run DNS or
a WINS server for simple name resolution.

Use ftp (not from your browser, but from an ftp client) to
transfer files, initiated from the XP machine (since as I
recall it has a client out-of-the-box, but not a server).

If you want to do Windows style shares, I think your best bet
is Samba. It isn't that hard to do.

If you want to serve files up via a browser, I think Apache is
probably where you should be looking. 

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