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hi, i have a samba share on my network, but the ip's are dhcp assigned. is there a way of using my machines host names to access the shares instead of the changing ip's? I read about /etc/hosts, but this appears to oonly work for static ip's to lookup hostnames.
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cool, just playing with it now ta
2007 - Started using Arch Linux as my only/main OS
- Samsung Series 3, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz - 8Gb DDR3 ram - 700Gb HDD
On board intel Graphics & Sound
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