Date   : Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:22:52 +0100
From   : darren.grant@... (Darren Grant)
Subject: Master Ethernet Upgrade

On 23 Oct 2009, at 19:58, Rick Murray wrote:

>
> This is because nothing knows what "sarah" refers to.
>
> Some routers have the ability to assign names to IP addresses, look up
> the DNS part.
> Otherwise, you ought to have a "hosts" file on the machine (every
> machine!) which hold a simple translation table.

Not exactly, Windows announces its SMB name to other systems so that  
DNS is not necessary, I'm guessing this hasn't been implemented in the  
BBC software though so you will need to use another method such as DNS  
to lookup names.

Darren