Samba & DHCP

[Jettah]

Hi there,

It took some time but I came up with a new subject.

My network comprises of:
a -- Amiga-A1200
b -- XP-Desktop
c -- XP-Laptop

They are all connected to a router which in its turn is connected to a DSL-modem.

The XP's use DHCP, so their IP-address may be different from  any previous situation. However, using SaMBa on the Amiga by means of a mount file, the Startup-line requires a fixed address in its 'C=' parameter (in my case: C=\\XP-Desktop:\).
Other parameters are:
MH=Amiga-A1200:
W=
U=
DM=XP-Desktop

How can I make this setup connect to a computer using ONLY its computername? And *NOT* the everchanging DHCP-issued IP-address.

Are there any experts around?
(An expert is someone who as more knowledge of the matter than I have, so here it is used as a relative qualification.)

Regards,

Jettah

[adolescent]

Most routers let you reserve IP addresses based on a computers hardware address.  This will allow you to keep your XP boxes at the same addresses, while still allowing other DHCP clients to use pooled IPs.

The only other way would be to setup a local name server (dynamic DNS) that would allow the XP boxes to register their hostnames to the IP.  This would generally require another system to run the service.