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So I setup a mini network at work. it involves 3 windows machines and 1 red hat enterprise 4 edition of linux.

All of them are virtualized on the SAME system using VMware. All of the windows systems are networked together and can talk with one another, but then again, they are in a private network of their own.

the Red Hat system has full access to the internet and can get on the internet just fine. the RH system can ping other systems on the network at work. including the laptop that i work from.

little side note: all the computers at work currently reside on the same domain.

the thing is. i can ping the red hat system from my laptop but only by IP. everyone else i can ping by name, the red hat system can ping everyone by name, but nothing can ping the red hat system by name. only by IP.

the system's name is rhws4-x64-vm and its IP is 192.68.181.37

here is some results

(from windows machine that is on the domain dlogics.com)
ping 192.68.181.37 - works just fine
ping rhws4-x64-vm - times out no response
ping rhws4-x64-vm.dlogics.com - automatically says it cant be found

(from the red hat system which is on dlogics.com)
ping dev-backup-lap - works fine
ping by IP - works fine

and once again the red hat system CAN get on the internet without a problem.

any help would be appreciated.

TB0ne

Either your systems aren't set up in DNS, or you have a problem in your /etc/resolv.conf, telling Linux where to get DNS info from. Check that file, and see if your DNS stuff is correct.

A quick-fix solution would be to add your Windows boxes names/addresses to the /etc/hosts file.

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i checked the resolv.conf file earlier and the info in it was the same DNS info that is found on the windows systems. i cant put computer names into the red hat system because this is a company and the red hat system needs to be talked to by multiple computers. not just mine.

i would like to do it that way but it wont work in this situation

what kind of data should i gather and post here?

hasanatizaz

in windows,the hosts file is located in
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\
where c: is your main where window resides.

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lets assume its a DNS problem. what files/info should i post to figure out where the problem lies?

anomie

From the Red Hat box:

$ dig rhws4-x64-vm.dlogics.com

From one of the Windows boxes:

> nslookup rhws4-x64-vm.dlogics.com

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i entered the info for the red hat host name in a different panel of the netwrok configuration and i restarted the NIC. it worked so my question is now closed. thanks to all who helped