[Sderby] Worthwhile setting up DHCP and DNS servers?

[David Jolley]

>Dave,
>
>I would recommend setting up DHCP and DNS on your network it is very easy
>and does have a lot of benefits. What I have yet to do is link DNS and
>DHCP dynamically although I believe this is very easy to do.
>  
>
I never said it was easy; it is possible, but requires a great deal of 
wading through really opaque documentation.  I've now got DHCP and DNS 
at home with the new arrival, so I'm going to be looking at linking the 
two together at some point in the future.  When it's done I'll write a 
DNS+DHCP HOWTO, which does seem to be sadly lacking at the moment.

>If you want a simple method of accessing Linux from your wife's PC, SuSE
>8.2 has a built in VNC server it just needs enabling in xinetd (can be
>done in YAST) and then put the vnc client on your wife's PC. Alternatively
>have a look at www.nomachine.com their NX technology works very well
>although it's not totally opensource.
>  
>
Or, to answer his question, Cygwin/XFree.  Download the Cygwin installer 
from http://sources.redhat.com and run it.  When promted, select all the 
software you want, including XFree86.  It uses DirectX on Windows to 
draw the X commands it gets sent and works really well, network 
bandwidth shouldn't be an issue.

Cheers,

Dave.

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