Why is adding a new Ubuntu PC to an existing LAN such a pain?

[Derek Broughton]

Garry Knight wrote:

> That's the problem I was describing in my previous post: There's nowhere
> in the (Netgear) wireless hub/router's config to put a domain name. In
> fact, the only place I can see to put a host's name is in the section
> where you configure fixed IPs to particular MAC addresses.

That seems odd.  I don't recall where i configured the domain for my
(Linksys) router, but it must be somewhere, because lookup by FQDN does
work and only one of the 5 or 6 FQDNs is actually on an Internet accessible
DNS.  You _shouldn't_ have to specify the host names anywhere but on the
computer that uses that name - it sends its name to the DHCP server, the
DHCP server adds that name to its table of hosts, and returns an IP.
> 
> My /etc/exports uses 192.168.1.0/24 rather than names as I want that stuff
> available to everything on the LAN. (Including my Pocket PC, but it
> doesn't understand NFS, unsurprisingly...)

Names/IPs, either one is available to everything on the LAN.  
-- 
derek