[wellylug] samba server and dhcp

Phillip Rose rosewong at paradise.net.nz
Fri May 7 22:57:10 NZST 2004


Hello,

I have just made the break from Ye Olde fixed IP addresses on my home LAN
to using my Smoothwall machine as a dhcp server.
I have another Linux machine (Monty), and a Windoze machine (Krusty), each
successfully getting IP addresses from Smoothwall. When I have two Windoze
machines running, they can still see one another by hostname, just as
before with fixed IP addresses. 

What can I do to make Monty reliably visible to Krusty (as a samba server)
without looking on Monty for his IP address, and searching for it in
Windoze explorer on Krusty each time? Under this new regime Krusty can only
find Monty by IP, not by hostname. I've looked up dhcpd info, but I'm stuck
for now. Below is the route command from Monty. apu is Smoothwall.

[root at monty phillip]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default         apu             0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0


Monty is running Mandrake 10.0 with a 2.6.3 kernel. Thanks,

--Phillip









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