Mail Server Question.

[HuggyBear]

I am running postfix ipop and imapd. They work absolutely great! I have two computers I am testing this out on. One of Course is Linux and the other is win98. I can retrieve email from the mail server if the win98 settings for smtp server and pop3 server are the IP address of the mail server which is 192.168.0.25 . It works just fine! My question is what do I have to do to make windows search for the mail server name instead of the ip address. For instance.

My hosts file contains 192.168.0.25 mailserv.biomed.pmh mail
it never finds the server unless i put in the IP numbers.

Thanks
Huggy

[PLBlaze]

You need to run named daemon in order to have the ip resolved as name.Most likely your Linux distribution came with package named Bind,see if you can find it on the cdrom or if you prefer, see www.isc.org (http://www.isc.org) for more information about bind.Hope this helps.