Hostnames in Windows internal network
The network at my university is driven primarily by Windows--users have "N drives" and the like, and everyone makes use of samba shares. Relatedly, everyone is told to set a computer name and domain name.
Those running windows can be pinged used the string "ping computer_name.domain_name" and their IP can be found. I'm running linux and this doesn't seem to work for me--others just can't resolve my address.
So, what kind of software are the Windows users running that makes this possible, and is there any way I can get this functionality on my Linux system?
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