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ninjaprawn

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

[solved]hostname / servername advice please

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.

thanks

Last edited by ninjaprawn (2012-03-23 22:01:10)

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [solved]hostname / servername advice please

You might be interested in Avahi

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ninjaprawn

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

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Re: [solved]hostname / servername advice please

cool, just playing with it now ta

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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