Hello,

I've a Slackware box on a home network, along with a couple of Windows
machines.

My question is how can I ping or otherwise connect to these Windows
boxes using their Windows names (WINS names these are called I
believe?). I'd like just to 'ping windowsbox' or whatever without
having to specify the full IP address. I know I can edit my /etc/hosts
file and put names in there, but I'd like it to be automatically
detected (The Windows machines detect each others names for example).

Any advice greatfully received :-)