Sorry for not getting back to you sooner but have been tied up with work.
Domain Name Servers are quite tricky to set up & learn about for the first time but from what you said in your last post you don't really need one. Setting up DNS for your LAN is only necessary if you have to many PC connected to keep track of them all. If all you want to do is access them via their hostname instead of their IP number you can use the file /etc/hosts under Linux, as for window$ I think the file is c:\windows\hosts (I think! Just search for it)
The Linux hosts file has a man page ("man hosts") that explains how to use it, basically it works the same as DNS but you enter the IP numbers & hostnames manually. It must have an entry for 127.0.0.1 that points to the local hostname of the PC the file is on, it should look something like:
Code:
127.0.0.1 full.hostname.of.PC first.alias localhost.localdomain localhost
The "localhost.localdomain localhost" part is important for local apps to work properly.
You then add the entries for the other PC's on your LAN, so the file will end looking something like:
Code:
127.0.0.1 full.hostname.of.local.PC first.alias localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.2 full.hostname.of.PC.with.this.IP alias.for.this.PC
192.168.0.3 full.hostname.of.PC.with.this.IP alias.for.this.PC
192.168.0.4 & so on & so forth
Once you have the modified this file you must restart the network on the PC the file resides on, this is done as root with:
Code:
service network restart
Once you have it set up correctly you will be able to access any PC with an entry in this file by it's hostname.
I've never used the window$ hosts file but I think it uses the same format, but no doubt you will need to reboot in order to use it.
If you have any troubles with this post the IP numbers & hostnames of all the PC's on your network & I'll help you create the files.
Let me know how you get on.
