Computer name (like Windows?)

Dexter750 · 10-18-2004, 02:47 PM

hey, alright another awesome n3wb question here...

i ran a server here at work (win2k) and since we are DHCP, i did not want people to access by ip, so i just named the computer name Webserver, so people could just type http://webserver and it would resolve.

How can i do something like this in linux? I dont have access to DNS or anything like that. Am i looking for samba or something else?

thanks for your time and replies!

david_ross · 10-18-2004, 02:51 PM

You can use samba to set a netbios name which will let you do that.

Dexter750 · 10-18-2004, 03:01 PM

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Originally posted by david_ross
You can use samba to set a netbios name which will let you do that.

thanks man thats what i was thinking. i have samba installed already with fedora core2, i just need to figure out how to do the netbios name, i dont see the options in the Gui

thanks

Dexter750 · 10-18-2004, 03:57 PM

cool, got it working perfect, thanks alot!