The reason that the http://dataserver thing works is because samba registers that name with netbios. Without netbios, the webserver name won't be registered. However, you do have a work around. Simply add an entry to the Windows hosts file to point the name webserver to the desired ip address. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net Note, the following is used for automated processing. Please lieve intact if quoting me in a reply. Verification: 5eab38a77ac40416e075be8f50607ff7 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jared Stofflett" <jared-stofflett@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 4:30 PM Subject: Confused on windows verses Linux networking > 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 >
