Chris Green wrote:
Yes, OK, so now if I try to connect to 'fred' the system will look for fred.isbd.co.uk as well as fred. However where/how does fred.isbd.co.uk get resolved to an IP address? Two or three of my 'fred's are print servers and/or printers which don't have a lot of inherent intelligence.
On your DNS server, preferably locally. I'm not keen having private IPs made available on a public nameserver.
Regards,
Martyn