On Sunday 16 January 2005 21:17, craig-fcp wrote: > > If you have other computers on the LAN with statically assigned IP > > addresses, enter their IPs together with an alias on the Hosts tab to > > allow you to access them using just the alias. > > It's got three fields > Address: Hostname: Alias something like this: Address:192.168.0.45 Hostname: windowsbox.mydomain.com Alias: windowsbox ie an IP address, a long (fully-qualified) hostname, and a short hostname that you wish to use to access the windows box, instead of either the numerical address or the long version. This is usually the bit before the first dot in the long name, but it actually can be anything you wish. this should write a line in /etc/hosts like this... 192.168.0.45 windowsbox.mydomain.com windowsbox Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX I always say beauty is only sin deep. -- Saki, "Reginald's Choir Treat"
