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> Anyway I have Samba working on the network.
> Using Samba the computers know each other by
> name.  But how does one give names to the Linux
> computers behind the blue box?  The blue box
> uses dhcp to give the computers ip addresses but
> that is it.  You cannot specify which MAC address
> gets which IP.

> It seems like the solution to this problem should be
> fairly trivial and also useful.  Is there a solution out
> there?

>> What if he sets the Linux workstation's DNS to this Linksys box? Does
>> the Linksys box serve up DNS services? Otherwise, yes, the /etc/hosts
>> file editing would be the trick.

> It is a hack though.  I would like a more elegant solution.  I don't
> understand why there isn't one.

> >> What if he sets the Linux workstation's DNS to this Linksys box? Does
> >> the Linksys box serve up DNS services? Otherwise, yes, the /etc/hosts
> >> file editing would be the trick.

> > It is a hack though.  I would like a more elegant solution.  I don't
> > understand why there isn't one.

> Why are you using DHCP? Use static IPs and put the names in /etc/hosts.

>> >> What if he sets the Linux workstation's DNS to this Linksys box? Does
>> >> the Linksys box serve up DNS services? Otherwise, yes, the /etc/hosts
>> >> file editing would be the trick.

>> > It is a hack though.  I would like a more elegant solution.  I don't
>> > understand why there isn't one.

>> Why are you using DHCP? Use static IPs and put the names in /etc/hosts.

> If you had read the original post you
> would know that:

> I have several computers behind one of those Linksys
> DSL Blue Boxes.  This is a good way to set up a
> business system on the interenet, because the blue
> box is too simple to be hacked from the outside
> world as I understand it.

> Anyway I have Samba working on the network.
> Using Samba the computers know each other by
> name.  But how does one give names to the Linux
> computers behind the blue box?  The blue box
> uses dhcp to give the computers ip addresses but
> that is it.  You cannot specify which MAC address
> gets which IP.

> It seems like the solution to this problem should be
> fairly trivial and also useful.  Is there a solution out
> there?

> That's what I do.
> The firewall will hand out an IP (between .100 and .199) for any boxes
> that ask for an IP but I have all my Linux boxes configured with IP
> addresses in the .000 to .099 range, and defined in /etc/hosts on all the
> machines. They never ask for an IP address from the firewall, and use IPs
> outside the range assigned by the firewall. Works great.

> >> >> What if he sets the Linux workstation's DNS to this Linksys box?
Does
> >> >> the Linksys box serve up DNS services? Otherwise, yes, the
/etc/hosts
> >> >> file editing would be the trick.

> >> > It is a hack though.  I would like a more elegant solution.  I don't
> >> > understand why there isn't one.

> >> Why are you using DHCP? Use static IPs and put the names in /etc/hosts.

> > If you had read the original post you
> > would know that:

> > I have several computers behind one of those Linksys
> > DSL Blue Boxes.  This is a good way to set up a
> > business system on the interenet, because the blue
> > box is too simple to be hacked from the outside
> > world as I understand it.

> > Anyway I have Samba working on the network.
> > Using Samba the computers know each other by
> > name.  But how does one give names to the Linux
> > computers behind the blue box?  The blue box
> > uses dhcp to give the computers ip addresses but
> > that is it.  You cannot specify which MAC address
> > gets which IP.

> > It seems like the solution to this problem should be
> > fairly trivial and also useful.  Is there a solution out
> > there?

> The Linksys box can limit DHCP to a specific range, IP addresses outside
> of that range can be used for static IPs. Use static IPs on the Linux
> boxes, there is no good reason to use DHCP.