Hosts not resolving

drguitarum2005 · 07-08-2005, 03:34 AM

Two problems sort of...
I added a new host to /etc/hosts syntax is:
192.168.1.102 laptop laptop

When i go to smb://192.168.1.102 it goes fine, but smb://laptop does not.

Even if I could make that works, DHCP always changed the IPs around and right now I am printing to 192.168.1.100. How can I make it go by name regardless of what IP DHCP gives it?

Linux.tar.gz · 07-08-2005, 12:34 PM

192.168.1.102 laptop
should suffice.

Brian Knoblauch · 07-08-2005, 12:42 PM

Setup an internal DNS server and do dynamic DNS updates from the clients. OR, configure DHCP to assign by MAC address.