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. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:411fe431175869618070793! > > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBH/Fi7s9z/XlyUyARAg+QAJ9lxL5Lc7BWGx8DEzKCu7sEfqdW4gCgx/B9 WGS9OuYp9B9waThgNuJVRfA= =jLgz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
