Ben Francis wrote:
If the DHCP server or the client PC that obtains the dynamic IP, updates the local DNS server (Win2K usually does this by default) then entering the DNS server IP address into /etc/resolv.conf should do the trick. This should cause the Linux box to look up PC names in the DNS server and hence you would be able to use user@hostname.
I *think* I've got my head round that, but haven't tried it yet, will have a go :) If I can't get that to work I'll just make a hosts file on each computer listing the names and IPs of the other boxes now that they have static IPs, is this a valid method?
having managed to allocate each machine a static IP I have created an /etc/hosts file for each computer that lists the IPs and hostnames so that I can now refer to each machine by name instead of IP. May be a long way round, I don't know.
Thanks for the help on that.
-- Ben "tola" Francis