On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 06:17:03AM -0700, edwarner99@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have setup two windows machine that are being > assigned IP addresses via DHCP on my Linux box. DDNS > is being updated correctly via DHCP. > > My question is: > > When I ping the netbios name of the machines, they > will only ping with the FQDN, "ping ok1.mylan.lan" and > not by the short name "pine". First, there is no guarantee that the netbios name is in any way related to the DNS name. > Is this the way it's supposed to work, or is there a > way to ping by the short name "ok1"? What you may want to do is configure your resolver for a default search domain. So, on your Linux systems, add the following line to /etc/resolv.conf: search mylan.lan and try your ping again. Remember, you're still not pinging by netbios name - you're simply appending mylan.lan to whatever name you put on your ping command. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
