Should I be setting up this network as a domain?

Does the last post make me seem like a TOTAL newbie? I am! Maybe static IPs are networking 101. I do not know. That's why I am asking.

Thanks to all.

CopperCliff said:

I have not set up static IPs for my machines. Is there a benefit to this?

I have 3 Linux VMs and they never find Windows machines if I don't. It seems easier to say Windows-A is 192.168.1.100 and add that to the host table of everything else. Then networking just works.

I don't have a very good router - it just came with my Internet/TV package - so most likely there is a better way but I don't know it.

Hopefully someone else can chime in if there is :)

lx07 said:

I have 3 Linux VMs and they never find Windows machines if I don't. It seems easier to say Windows-A is 192.168.1.100 and add that to the host table of everything else. Then networking just works.

I don't have a very good router - it just came with my Internet/TV package - so most likely there is a better way but I don't know it.

Hopefully someone else can chime in if there is :)

Well, I have nothing to do for a few hours. How hard can it be?

Onward thru the fog!

CopperCliff said:

Onward thru the fog!

That's my strategy. To everything really.

Worth a try anyway...

Well, so far so good.

All machines see all machines.
I really hope it wasn't that easy!

Maybe that is the first rule of networking 101. Set Static IPs! Time will tell.....

lx07

Yes, "Onward thru the fog" has been my credo since the seventies.....hasn't steered me TOO far wrong, yet!

Well, back to the drawing board......
Came back to find my computer cannot see the others even after a restart.....