Dick Davies wrote:
* Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0745 18:45]:
It is the job of the dhcp server to assign them IP numbers.
But that doesn't guarantee that a given named machine will get the same IP each time which is what the OP
wanted.
Why don't you just map MAC addresses to IPs? isc-dhcpd can certainly do that.
Yeah I suppose I could do that, but it just seems like a very manual
approach to either scratch DHCP, or give every machine on the network a
reservation.
To answer other questions in the thread... right now I just have 4
machines plus a linksys router, the number is growing fairly rapidly now
however.
Ideally I want it to work like a domain, so I'm not adverse to making a
proper domain... In part because I don't want to deal with the .hosts
file that we're talking about, and in larger part because this network
is going to be a model for several other networks I'll be setting up and
it simply won't be an option in those cases, people will need to be able
to just add a windows machine without any configuration of the network
and need to be able to see the whole network.
I'm curious about the Samba suggestion posted as it seems to fit best
with what I'm trying to actually achieve, also it sounds like just
moving the DHCP server off the linksys and onto the debian server is
probably the wisest and most robust option, not sure how that works with
wireless though. Thanks for all the discussion and help on the topic.
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