Home Network: suggestions on how to configure DNS / DHCP

[lanniel]

Have Linux running on a PC accessing the Internet through a DSL Router. The router is using DHCP to assign internal IPs. I can't access (from other PCs on the Network) the Apache Web Server I have running. The DNS services the Windows PCs are using comes from my ISP so they can't find my Web Server. What is the best way to configure the network? Should I be using the Linux box for DHCP? What about DNS?
Help?
Lannie
:confused:

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

What type of Windows boxen are they? Are they WinXP, 2000, 95/98/ME?

Also, what exactly is it that you're trying to do? Have you given the Linux box a hostname, and you want to point Internet Explorer to the box's hostname? There are ways to do it, but I can't explain it until I know what type of Windows boxes you have...

If you know the IP address that the Linux box recieves from the router, you can just plug that IP into your browser, and the Windows machines should be able to view the contents just fine.

[lanniel]

All of the PCs on my network are XP but 1 which is 2000. I tryed using the IP assigned by the router and it does not come up. I get "The page cannot be displayed." My network in my house is not setup with a domain. Only a Workgroup called MY FAMILY. Is that the problem?