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by **Scott Brow** » Mon, 04 Nov 2002 06:10:48

Hello
I have two PCs on my network currently, one Linux and one Windoze. My
Linux PC has a hostname/address that is: scott.brown.boring.net, how can my
Windoze PC see that address instead of plain: scott? Bind DNS server, some
Samba thing, or...?

Thank you,
Scott Brown

by **Allen Kistle** » Mon, 04 Nov 2002 12:56:05

> Hello
> I have two PCs on my network currently, one Linux and one Windoze. My
> Linux PC has a hostname/address that is: scott.brown.boring.net, how can my
> Windoze PC see that address instead of plain: scott? Bind DNS server, some
> Samba thing, or...?

I'm not certain what you mean by "see," but I suspect you mean "resolve."

Windows NT/2000/XP has a hosts file in \winnt\system32\drivers\etc just
like UNIX does in /etc. Put an entry like

1.2.3.4 scott scott.brown.boring.net

in it. Windows 95/98/ME has a hosts file in \windows.

You could also install a DNS server like bind and set up your Windows
machine to use your DNS server instead of any other. This option is
definitely a lot more work than editing a text file, though.

Samba on Linux would only advertize the simple hostname (scott) as a
NetBIOS name. It won't advertize an FQDN.

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Windoze seeing Linux hostname

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