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Posted: Sep. 24 2007,12:03 QUOTE
Hello!
I have a question concerning hostname resolving. My DSL box runs on a network with many windows workstations (windows domain) attached. Until now I always used the ip adress to access it (ping, httpd etc.).

But I discovered that my windows machine can also find it by using the hostname. How does windows do that? Does DSL register somewhere in the windows network during boot?

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Bert
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Posted: Sep. 24 2007,12:12 QUOTE
The base dsl system has the samba (windows networking) configuration file, smb.conf, and a couple of other samba bits & pieces (eg smbtree?) - is the hostname you see in smb.conf?
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Posted: Sep. 24 2007,13:11 QUOTE
Here the first lines of /etc/samba/smb.conf:
[global]
  workgroup = fake
  server string = %h server (Samba %v)
;   wins support = no
;   wins server = w.x.y.z
  dns proxy = no
;   name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast

But I do not start samba explicitly. And the samba server is not installed (I think it is an extra package.)

B.t.w. I did not change the default hostname. It is still 'box'. An the domain name is obtained by dhcp.
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Posted: Sep. 24 2007,13:32 QUOTE
Ah - OK, I wasn't at a dsl machine so I couldn't check that. After checking, all I could see in the base system samba-wise was /usr/bin/smbclient & smbtree.

You're right, samba is a mydsl extension.
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Posted: Sep. 24 2007,14:59 QUOTE
Afaik this is part of a standard network... part of DHCP... so it would depend on your network setup/servers.
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