Re: Linksys CableDsl Router and DHCP etc.

kung__fusion_at_hotmail.com
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:29:54 -0400

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:37:07 GMT, CJT <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote:

>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.

Hi. Thanks for the reply. I did that and I can ping both machines
by name, but doing a lookup fails. I'm wondering if maybe I
put the machine names in lmhosts if Samba will work?

>
>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.

I'm just wondering if it will work if name lookup fails.
Ping seems to be smart enough to look in the hosts
file. I just installed mandrake 9.1 and I'm at the same
point AFA the network goes. Although I must say
things came up workin' pretty good out of the box.
I just don't want to jump into Samba setup if it's
doomed to failure. It worries me that nothing
will lookup the local machine names(except for
ping that is.)

Is anyone else using the trick of forcing dynamic ip
assigment to known values and putting that ip info
in the hosts files? (That's how I got ping to work)

Thanks for any info.