I do not doubt what you say, but it does not seem to answer the actual question. If I use a web browser from any system to look at the Linksys Router's web page and navigate to the page where I can click on a button to display the routers DHCP Client table, it shows the system names for the TiVo Box (which I understand is a linux based bystem) and the names for Windows boxes, but does not show the names for my Linux systems. Although it would be nice to ping (etc) by name, that was meant more as supporting information than as a question. Sorry if I confused the issue.
BTW, making named entries in /etc/hosts and in C:\WINDOWS\system32\hosts is not a perfect solution to the ping type question I was not asking either since the DHCP issued IPs actually do change once in a while.
On 9/5/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 22:11 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
> 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.
>
> 1) What makes the router recognize the box names for clients other
> than Linux? Can something in Linux be configured so the router knows
> their names?
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wins/netbios - Linux uses DNS
It has nothing to do with the router per se.
What you can do is edit /etc/hosts and put entries with short names
.i.e.
# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.2.10
lin-workstation.azapple.com lin-workstation
192.168.2.20 win-workstation.azapple.com win-workstation
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> 2) I am guessing that the windows ping command gets box names from
> something other than DNS or the HOSTS file. Anyone know what? Or if
> Linux is using that ability (via Samba?) to find the Windows Network
> boxes? Could that facility be used to make the Linux box names known
> to Windows boxes?
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see above
Craig
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