Whether I look at the DHCP Clients Table on my Linksys WRT54G, a Network Neighborhood window in XP, a nbtstat -c or net view command result in a command window, or a servers list in Ubuntu I only see names for my Windows boxes and my TiVo unit.  The Linux boxes show up in the DHCP client list of course but sans any name at all.  I can ping the windows boxes by name from another windows box but not from Linux.
<br clear="all"><br>1) What makes the router recognize the box names for clients other than Linux?&nbsp; Can something in Linux be configured so the router knows their names?<br><br>2) I am guessing that the windows ping command gets box names from something other than DNS or the HOSTS file.&nbsp; Anyone know what?&nbsp; Or if Linux is using that ability (via Samba?) to find the Windows Network boxes?&nbsp; Could that facility be used to make the Linux box names known to Windows boxes?
<br>-- <br>Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.&nbsp;&nbsp;- Dr. Seuss