Michael Stowe wrote:
> 
>> Does it actually resolve via DNS?
> 
>> This is a home network so to be honest, I wouldn't even know how to go
>> about testing this.  My laptop is associate to a Workgroup and my Linux
>> server has a static IP address within the 192.168.15.x range.  I can ping
>> the laptop by ip address but I am not sure what it's normal address would
>> be.  For example, would it be laptop1.workgroup.com ?
> 
> Probably not.  Somewhere on your network you've got a DHCP server that's
> giving your laptop an IP address, and there's probably a DNS server that's
> either being updated directly by your laptop (Windows does that) or by
> your DHCP server.
> 
> At any rate, to find out, open a command window on your Windows box and type:
> 
> ipconfig
> 
> Which should yield a "connection-specific DNS suffix."
> 
> Workgroups/WINS is -quite- different, and entirely unrelated.

For a network with only a few machines, the easiest approach might be to 
configure the router/dhcp server to give out fixed IP addresses based on the 
known ethernet MAC addresses.   Most home routers have a simple web interface 
and the ability to configure this.  They may also offer to provide DNS, but for 
a couple of machines it doesn't matter - you can just set dhcp to 0 in backuppc 
and put the IP address in ClientAlias.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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