http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Configuring-DNS-with-DHCP-in-a-home-network-23306030 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:05:10 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:05:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Configuring-DNS-with-DHCP-in-a-home-network-23306354
You can run Samba on the Ubuntu box as a WINS server. The other option is to set up a LMHOSTS with IP/names.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Configuring-DNS-with-DHCP-in-a-home-network-23306354 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:06:56 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Configuring-DNS-with-DHCP-in-a-home-network-23306030
I have a home network with 2 laptops connected to a router, both running Vista, and one laptop has a Ubuntu VM running within. The router uses DHCP to assign IPs. Right now, apart from being able to connect to another machine's public shared folder using its hostname form time to time, I have not been able to use hostnames for anything else - SSH, other network apps etc.

Seems like I have to set up some kind of DNS server? Is there a way to do this while still using DHCP? Or will I HAVE to assign static IPs to everybody?

Thanks!]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Configuring-DNS-with-DHCP-in-a-home-network-23306030 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:37:04 EDT