[vox-tech] home network - how to make a UNIX known to the other PC (Windows)

[Hai Yi]

I appreciate ALL the suggestions, wow! Since I am "playing" the
network, I'll give all the alternative a try, isn't it the way that we
learn stuff? :-)

Thanks again,
Hai

On 10/2/07, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 05:11:29PM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:54:13PM -0700, Brian Lavender wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 07:48:43PM -0700, Nick Schmalenberger wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > Yes, that would work well. The Windows XP hosts file is
> > > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
> > > > You can also use nmbd in samba to advertise your Ubuntu computer using
> > > > the Windows SMB protocol.
> > >
> > > Not necessary. Netbios already broadcasts the name.
> > >
> > Isn't that what nmbd does? Personally, I prefer not to run nmbd because
> > I'd rather save the memory. My router (openwrt) already runs dnsmasq
> > that, as somebody else mentioned, has dynamic dns updates from dhcp.
> > There have been other situations where I have used the hosts file in
> > windows, like if the router cannot run dnsmasq and I don't want to setup
> > another machine for it.
>
> I think you are right.
>
> brian
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