Hi all
I have a desktop with FC5 installed on it as well as WinXP.
A laptop with WinXP and Ubuntu on it wireless.
A linksys wireless router adsl modem.
Broadband still to be hooked on in a couple of days, yah no dial up.
A canon printer.
The Desktop FC5 is hooked to router
The printer is hook to router
The laptop under windows is wirelessly hooked to router with WPA PSK
My question is should I use the DHCP from the router to assign IP address. This is what I do at the moment and I am able to ping each computer and router but for the computers I have to ping the ip address.
They get assigned from 192.168.1.100 by the router.
The laptop has a hostname of evo6 and the desktop has a host name of STI. Both of these show up on the router with the hostname and the ip address that has been assigned.
Why cant i just ping the hostname like, ping STI, from the laptop to desktop, for example? Do you have to have these assigned in the hosts.conf do do this and is that only with static ip's.
Obviously just setting up a simple wired, wireless, router home network so may need to ask some stupid questions in the future.
Look forward to any comments you maybe able to give.
Cheers
Gimmee