Tom Taylor wrote:
I'm using Fedora Core 1, dual booted with Windows XP, on a small house network (5-6 PCs). The router, a Linksys 4 port is managing DHCP, and we're all on Class C.
I'm trying to get Fedora to share folders with the Windows machines, as well as just interact via hostnames. If I type 'ping windowsbox', it cannot find the IP in Fedora, whereas it will find it easily in XP. Presumably this is due to some sort of NETBIOS DNS lookup.
It's a netbios name lookup... instead of using dns , m$ decided that a broadcast was better than using dns to resolve local names... If memory serves me well , there's a daemon called Lisa that tries to do the same thing....
I have configured the workgroup in Samba, and the hostname of the machine is 'tom'.
So, what do I need to configure to allow my fedora box to see my windows machines through DNS? I should also mention that they change IPs regularly, so keeping the whole network static and using /etc/hosts is not an option.
As mentioned by Roger, you can setup your box to run a dhcp server and a dns server... But , as it is a dual boot machine , I dont recommend that, because if you were on windows xp , the other machines wont get a ip and will be unable to resolve names (unless you configure two or three dns servers on /etc/resolv.conf or in windows), unless you configure a dns and dhcp server on windows also...
Pedro Macedo
