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Re: [opensuse] finding host name of a windows machine
Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
I have DHCP running on my linux server, and it gives out ips. I would like to access all my computers in my network by hostname....but that doesn't seem to work unless I put the IP and host in /etc/hosts..


How can I do this? My DHCP server is my router.

There are a few different methods. One it to use MAC addresses to specify IP address and then use a DNS server (I use DNSMasq) or you could use the host name option to specify the IP address and again a DNS.

I use the MAC address method. Also, you can configure DNSMasq to read the hosts file on the server for local addresses.

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