Ah, the easy way!  ;^)

Part of this was a learning exercise for me.  Windows computers on the
network are reachable by name automatically, even as DHCP clients.  So I
wanted to learn a little about what it takes to have "automatic" name
resolution for Linux computers on a Windows network.

The answer appears to be that Linux computers must have a Samba client
going for it to work that way.  In this case, I did not care to go that
path and complete my learning process.  But, it did teach me something.

Alan

Shane Lofgren wrote:
> Alan,
> If this is to be a server then why not set a static IP address for the
> machine?  This would solve your problems and would seem to be a better
> way to handle your issues.  You could then add a new host file in your
> windows DNS so that clients could resolve the host name.
> 
> -Shane