I just set up a home network (three computers (2 run XP, the other runs mandrakelinux 10.1) connected to the Internet through a router. I configured the mandrakelinux computer to run an Apache Web Server for the computers on the network. When I type the numeric IP of the mandrake comp. into the browser of either of the XPs I get the Web page of the apache server. That's fine.
The problem is that I don't want to be typing numbers. I want to be able to type the hostname of the mandrake computer instead of the numeric IP. What do I need to do to make this happen?

P.S.
I have set up static DHCP on my router, so each computer on the network has a static IP.

On the windows boxes edit the hosts file, it can be found:


Windows 95/98/Me c:\windows\hosts

Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Windows XP Home c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts


Open it in notepad
Then add a line similar to this:

192.1.2.3 RandomName


Where 192.1.2.3 is the IP-Address you are typing in, and RandomName is whatever you want to access it by, so to access the above example

http://RandomName/

That worked. Thanks.