setup question

Hello,

I am confused on this and being that I am no expert I thought I would ask
some.

I am attempting to setup some servers for my home office.

I have 2 linux machines (RH6.0) and 2 Windows machines (Win 98SE).

I want to utilize the 2 linux machines as servers,

I connect to all machines using a 4 port hub

1 for internal mail and the other as an internal web sever(intranet) for
testing of cgi programs.

I can access my web server machine no problem and everything works fine.

Where I am stuck.

I have to access the web server via calling the ip number.
I would like to access the machine just by calling it's name or damain name.

(please note these machines are not accessible to the internet!)

Also I cannot figure out how to setup the mail server.

So in all, I can't understand how to setup a DNS and SMTP.

Can some one point me to a reference that would be easy to understand or
offer some advice (besides giving it all up and destroying the machines)

Thank you
Mike

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