[ML-General] ftp to other computers on my subnet via name instead of dhcp ip address

[David]

I can remember 9 names (or more) much easier than i can remember which 
ip addresses correspond to those names.

"takes a bit of setup" is what I'm trying to discover HOW to do.

Thanks,
David



On 06/20/2016 04:48 PM, Brian Oborn wrote:
> I believe that you're way overthinking things with setting up a 
> dedicated router for things like this. Your linksys will have a way to 
> assign static dhcp entries so the same computers always get the same 
> IP addresses. Once you've done that you can either memorize the IPs, 
> or use the hosts file described previously to translate the names to 
> IP addresses. Doing this takes a bit of setup once for each machine 
> that you want to connect to, but is far simpler and easy to understand.
>
> Brian Oborn aka bobbytables
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:42 PM, WebDawg <webdawg at gmail.com 
> <mailto:webdawg at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     pfSense.
>
>     You can use an old laptop and PCMCIA card even.
>
>     Turn the wireless router into an accesspoint with
>     openwrt/ddwrt/tomato.
>
>     On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:37 PM, David <ainut at knology.net
>     <mailto:ainut at knology.net>> wrote:
>
>         Dawg, I called Linksys and they told me that this (expensive)
>         wifi/router does not have that capability!!!  I'm not sure the
>         "tech" person I talked to could even spell router, so take
>         that with a grain of salt.
>
>         I've been looking at OpenWRT and it sounds great, BUT their
>         instructions for loading it into my router are baffling.  They
>         seem to have a version for the Raspberry Pi, but none of the
>         Pi's have gigabit ethernet and they all have only a single
>         wired ethernet connector. <sigh>  I can't really afford to
>         dedicate a desktop machine to do the routing.
>
>
>
>
>         On 06/20/2016 04:32 PM, WebDawg wrote:
>>         Also you may need to use the host.domainname that your
>>         linksys device is passing.
>>
>>         It depends how it is all configured I think.
>>
>>         On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:00 PM, David <ainut at knology.net
>>         <mailto:ainut at knology.net>> wrote:
>>
>>             To transfer files via ftp, for example, currently I have
>>             to go to the target computer, log in, run ifconfig or
>>             ipconfig and get it's current dhcp ip address, write it
>>             down so i don't forget, go back to the host computer,
>>             then ftp to that ip address.  I cannot get the
>>             Linksys/Cisco WRT320N router to use the computer name,
>>             versus the ip address, even though it keeps the dhcp
>>             client list internally to itself.  This has gotten to be
>>             just too aggravating.
>>
>>             So, is there a way I can get this router to do one of
>>             it's most basic jobs?
>>
>>             Alternatively, is there a way to have each and every
>>             Winblows and Linux computer on my little home-net keep
>>             it's own internal table of computer name vs ip addresses
>>             so I don't have the hassle every time I want to move
>>             files from one to another?
>>
>>             Thanks,
>>             David
>>
>>
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