I have a LAN setup with a bunch of windows and linux boxes. The LAN is built on top of the AT&T DSL Router. I don't have any type of DNS Server running. All the windows machines can identify themselves by machine name over the network. Even a Linux NAS box can also be accessible by machine name. However, I recently built a CentOS linux box and I want it to be accessible by machine name. I've tried setting the hostname but it does not work. Can someone help me with this problem?
Linux – Access linux machine by hostname within LAN
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Best Answer
If you run Samba on the Linux box, you should be able to access the Linux box from the Windows boxes, by using the Linux box's hostname.
(There is a lot more to it than that, but that's the simplest solution)