NetBIOS provides link local name resolution in Windows.  You can make 
your linux servers advertise themselves like this if you have samba 
installed.  Look for nmbd.

Austin


Alan Dayley wrote:
> Google gives me too many hits that don't apply to my need.  I'm sure
> someone here knows exactly how to do this.
>
> Suppose I have a network.  Suppose I have two main Windows Server 2003
> boxes on this network.  Among several services, one Windows server
> provides DHCP to connecting clients and the other provides DNS for the
> network.
>
> Now, suppose I place a Linux server on this same network to provide say
> wiki or subversion services.  I want to configure the Linux server such
> that:
>
> 1 - It has a fixed host name, like "linuxserver"
> 2 - It gets it's IP address and usual such settings via DHCP
> 3 - Clients can get to it's services by using it's host name
>
> I have #1 and #2 taken care of.  That was easy since they just worked.
> It is #3 that is not working.  I must be missing something somewhere to
> get it configured correctly.  I don't want to have to edit a "hosts"
> file on the Windows DNS server.  Other clients on the network are
> apparently in the DNS though they are all Windows clients so maybe it is
> a Windows protocol thing.
>
> What do I need to do to make #3 happen?
>
> Linux server is Fedora Core 5, in case that matters.
>
> Alan
>
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