I have a home network where some of the machines have static IP addresses, and the rest have their IP addresses allocated by a DHCP server which runs on my broad band router. The broad band router also provides wired and wireless access and acts as the gateway to the internet.
The machines with static IP addresses only have static IP's because they provide services ( such as printers ) that I want the other machines to be able to access.
What I'd really like to do is to be able to access the machines in my network by name rather than IP address, but I don't know where to start. I don't even know what to Google ...
Any help is greatly appreciated.