Simple name windows linux question

On 09 Nov 2003 23:58:32 GMT, Vitamx wrote:
>
> I have a dhcp connection to the internet
> right now from a windows machine.
>
> Where is the ip adddress of the
> nameserver stored on this computer?

That is
a
windoze
question.

>
> And lets assume that I was attached to
> a linux machine. How is the linux machine
> configured to stick the ip address of its
> network on my machine when the dhcp
> connection is made?

This
is
another
junk
question.

The linux
box cannot
give it's ip
address
to windows
unless
linux has
been setup
to be
the
dhcp
server
for the
lan.

Here again
you will
have
to
read
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
because we
have
no
idea how
you have
hooked what
where.

vitamx@aol.com (Vitamx) writes:
>
> OK, I am typing this from a standalone
> windows computer. How does this
> computer find the nameserver on the
> internet. And lets pretend I am not using
> AOL, but just a generic isp. Lets make
> it a linux isp to stay on topic in the NG.

There is nothing you can do that will make this on topic in a Linux
news group. However, since you seem to be unable to navigate the
Windows menus without someone holding your hand and seem intent on
being here until somebody takes you through it, I'll go through the
process on my laptop and take notes (the following is for Windows 2000) :

Double click the "My Computer" icon on the desktop
Double click on "Control Panel"
Double click on "Network and Dial-up Connections"
Double clock on "Make new Connection"
Click on "Next"
Click on "Dial-up to the Internet" and click on "Next"
Click on whichever of the options is appropriate and click "Next".
I'm going to use the last option (set up manually) in spite of your
statement that you're having all this trouble with a standalone
Windows box that is connected to a Linux-based ISP which doesn't
provide any customer support whatever (or else you wouldn't be here),
because my real computer is using my connection at the moment.
Click on "I connect through a phone line and a modem" and click
"Next."
Enter yoyour ISPs Area code, Telephone number, and other information.
Click on "Advanced"
Clock on the "Address" tab.

You'll find to options
Windows menus without someone holding your hand and seem intent on
being here until somebody takes you through it (the following is for
Windows 2000) :

Double click the "My Computer" icon on the desktop
Double click on "Control Panel"
Double click on "Network and Dial-up Connections"
Double clock on "Make new Connection"
Click on "Next"
Click on "Dial-up to the Internet" and click on "Next"
Click on whichever of the options is appropriate and click "Next".
I'm going to use the last option (set up manually) in spite of your
statement that you're having all this trouble with a standalone
Windows box that is connected to a Linux-based ISP which doesn't
provide any customer support whatever (or else you wouldn't be here),
because my real computer is using my connection at the moment.
Click on "I connect through a phone line and a modem" and click
"Next."
Enter yoyour ISPs Area code, Telephone number, and other information.
Click on "Advanced"
Clock on the "Address" tab.

You'll find two DNS options here: either your ISP tells you the
address of the DNS server when you log in, or you have a DNS server
address to enter. Enter the right thing. Wunnerful, wunnerful.

Note that absolutley nothing in this response had anything to do with
Linux in any way, shape, or form.
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>"Vitamx" <vitamx@aol.com> schrieb
>> >> Please humor me here. How does
>> >> windows resolve the names of Linux
>> >> computers on the WWW?
>> >
>> >through nameservers
>> >
>
>Why don't you just follow the steps you were doing when you were
>attaching a new windows machine to the network? In one of your
>earlier posts you said:
>> This is because I am
>> trying to put linux computer amongst
>> some windows computers.
>So you must have already configured at least one windows machine.
>Just repeat this configuration for the new machine.
>
>I don't understand how you can have a working windows machine
>network and ask these basic questions here (here !!! in a linux
>group).
>
>Puzzled
>Martin
>
>
Let me try to make my question more
concrete.

Let us say we have a network with
several windows machine and then I want
to add a linux machine. The linux machine
has an apache web server.

I want to open up internet explorer and
type in www.linuxmachine.com and
see the linux machines web page on the windows machine.

On 10 Nov 2003 05:41:33 GMT, Vitamx wrote:
> Let me try to make my question more
> concrete.
>
> Let us say we have a network with
> several windows machine and then I want
> to add a linux machine. The linux machine
> has an apache web server.
>
> I want to open up internet explorer and
> type in www.linuxmachine.com and
> see the linux machines web page on the windows machine.

What is so damn hard about putting the
ip_address linuxmachine.com web
in the windows hosts file.

JUST DO IT.

Bit Twister wrote:

> On 10 Nov 2003 05:41:33 GMT, Vitamx wrote:
>
>>Let me try to make my question more
>>concrete.
>>
>>Let us say we have a network with
>>several windows machine and then I want
>>to add a linux machine. The linux machine
>>has an apache web server.
>>
>>I want to open up internet explorer and
>>type in www.linuxmachine.com and
>>see the linux machines web page on the windows machine.
>
>
> What is so damn hard about putting the
> ip_address linuxmachine.com web
> in the windows hosts file.
>
> JUST DO IT.

He probably does not understand that DNS is just one of many ways that
that a host obtains / translates a hostname to an IP address, and he
probably does not want to modify the hosts file in multiple windows
machine to achieve what he wants.

To the OP:

1) Do you have DNS within your LAN? If you do, add a DNS record for
linux machine into your DNS server.

2) If you do not have DNS within your LAN, then maybe running a SAMBA
client on the linux machine will add your linux's IP address to your
Windows' network WINS ( ugh! ).

3) Otherwise, you have to modify \WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and
add an IP address and hostname pair in that file for the linux machine.

On 09 Nov 2003 22:33:59 -0700, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

<snipped win 2k info>

The op did not supply the os name and version.
With our luck it will be win 3.1

The down side of answering microsoft questions here is like feeding
bears on the back porch. Pretty soon their in the kitchen and you
cannot get rid of them and it is against the law to shoot them. :(

"Vitamx" <vitamx@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20031110004133.29742.00000686@mb-m29.aol.com

> Let me try to make my question more
> concrete.
>
> Let us say we have a network with
> several windows machine and then I want
> to add a linux machine. The linux machine
> has an apache web server.
>
> I want to open up internet explorer and
> type in www.linuxmachine.com and
> see the linux machines web page on the windows machine.

I gave you the answer as the second post in this thread.

If you won't listen, then why bother even asking?

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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 06:04:40 GMT, noone wrote:

>
> He probably does not understand that DNS is just one of many ways that
> that a host obtains / translates a hostname to an IP address, and he
> probably does not want to modify the hosts file in multiple windows
> machine to achieve what he wants.

He was given that answer. Now do you want to walk him through adding
the linux ip the to the windows dns server........ :(

>To the OP:
>
>1) Do you have DNS within your LAN? If you do, add a DNS record for
>linux machine into your DNS server.
>
>2) If you do not have DNS within your LAN, then maybe running a SAMBA
>client on the linux machine will add your linux's IP address to your
>Windows' network WINS ( ugh! ).
>
>3) Otherwise, you have to modify \WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and
>add an IP address and hostname pair in that file for the linux machine.
>
>
>

Thank you, thank you, thank you and
thanks again. But what is this WINS
thingy.

Vitamx wrote:

>>To the OP:
>>
>>1) Do you have DNS within your LAN? If you do, add a DNS record for
>>linux machine into your DNS server.
>>
>>2) If you do not have DNS within your LAN, then maybe running a SAMBA
>>client on the linux machine will add your linux's IP address to your
>>Windows' network WINS ( ugh! ).
>>
>>3) Otherwise, you have to modify \WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and
>>add an IP address and hostname pair in that file for the linux machine.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Thank you, thank you, thank you and
> thanks again. But what is this WINS
> thingy.

Well, if you do not know what WINS is, you have a lot more to learn
before using linux in a network with mostly Windows hosts.

WINS = Windows Internet Naming Resolution
You better ask more details about it in the windows newsgroup