Ubuntu, Windows and my Linksys BEFSR81 Router

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 24/09/05, Hodgins Family <ehodgins at telusplanet.net> wrote:
> Good evening!
>
> I'm annoyed.
> [SNIP]
> If I find myself with two/all the computers running their incarnations of
> Windows I can find the computers BY NAME in the Network Neighbourhood and
> the DHCP table in the router has appropriate entries under Name, IP and MAC
> address. This happens irrespective of which computer was booted up first,
> second or third...they are just there. And I can send files back and forth
> without problems.
>
> Under Ubuntu life is different. If the Ubuntu computers are started up their
> names DO NOT show up in the DHCP table of the router but the IP addresses
> and MAC addresses do.
>
> This is annoying to me. I've started to use NFS on the Ubuntu machines and
> [SNIP]

The best thing I could suggest is to stop trying to use NFS and use
Samba, which is the networking software in Linux specifically designed
to play nice with Windows.

$ sudo apt-get install samba

(unless you've already done that.)

For playing with Windows 98 (especially), the default installation of
Samba is very close to what you want. There's some other options in
/etc/samba/smb.conf that you may want to look at.

-Eamonn