>> but usually the server will give the same address to a particular machine. >Not necessarily true, but it can be setup to give the same IP to a certain MAC address. I know about setting up the DHCP config files for hard MAC-to-IP addressing, but I still have seen very consistent addresses on completely dynamic networks. I think it's probably due to the algorithm used by the DHPC server to pick the address in the first place, maybe a hash of some kind. >> BTW, if someone would like to volunteer how the Windows boxes >> are getting the name info of the Linux box I would love to hear it > I can tell you, but don't believe me because I am not in my right mind. > If the linux machine is running samba and samba is setup for the same >workgroup, netbios does this (when you start smb, it also starts nmbd). I think that's a very good answer, Randy. Netbios broadcasts names along with other machine information. I wish I'd have thought of that! :o) Thanks and Merry Christmas, Greg -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
