Linux & Windows LAN Question

[MrBelfry]

Hey guys

I am a complete Linux newb but wanted to set up a LAMP machine to run a small intranet and also mirror our website. I don't want to do any filesharing or anything like that

The LAN already consists of some Win2k machines and now I want to add Linux (I'm using the Mandrake 9.2 distro).

Using my incredibly limited newbie brain I've managed to be able to get the linux and windows boxes to communicate but only by using IP addresses - how do i get the linux box to recognise the names of the windows machines and get the windows machines to recognise the name of the linux box?

Any help is greatly appreciated but remember I am kind of stupid

Thanks



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[MrBelfry]

Seems to be working now but I'm not sure what I did!

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[stefanwagner]

you edited /etc/hosts?

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[MrBelfry]

I did eventually. I initially tried that and it made no difference.

I reinstalled linux with apache and samba - i don't really know what difference that made but it worked

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