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Help!  I'm a novice at Linux (some experience) and I want to set up a basic
home network.  I've already got most of it up and running--I can ping every
computer via its IP address, but that's not quite what I want.  I'd like to
assign an actual name to each computer; e.g., europa.jupiter.sol, or
whatever.  I can do this for the Linux machine, but I can't seem to do it
for the Win98 boxes.  I've gone in and hacked the Hosts.sam files on both
computers, but that didn't help.  Any suggestions?  Email is preferred

Carl Anderson

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Hey everybody:

Thanks for everyone's help.  The hosts.sam / hosts filename thing was my
problem.  However, I'm now wondering if it was really necessary to do all of
this.  All I really needed was to be able to talk to one computer from
another, and I could have done that very simply with Network Neighborhood.  
I guess I just like a challenge!

Oh--I did download the DNS HOW-TO, but haven't read through all of it yet.  
It seems rather tricky.  You might see me post again!

--Carl

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