naming a centos server for a windows client
 

hi...

i have a centos 5.5 server running tomcat,oracle xe,apache etc..

i would like to be able my windows machine to access this server by name, and not ip,
for example have http://backserv:7080 for oracle xe web admin and so on..
i know one way is DNS, but if i install oracle on a windows machine in peer-to-peer network, i can allready access with by it's name.
so i'm guessing i should do something with samba, wins or something like that.

never mind i got :) now for the REAL complex stuff of insalling web sphere 7 without user interface (need to look for a response file).

DNS is the answer.

/etc/hosts is another alternative.

Even if you don't happen to have a full-fledged "DNS Server" on your LAN, your Windows hosts are still implicitly using DNS for name resolution :)

oh but i soloved it without the need for dns, i simply enabled in the smb.conf the netbios name... isn't that enough? my other machinse can access it with that name.

create a dns seems complex, and won't i need a fixed ip's for it? my router machine (a linux server by itself allready has dhcpd).