What is the SIMPLEST way to setup two-way hostname resolution between Windows 7 Host and Ubuntu Linux VMWare Guest?

Question

Starting from a clean Windows 7, I installed VMWare Player and then inside it I installed Ubuntu.

Both OS's can ping each other by IP address, but hostnames won't resolve. What's the easiest way to fix that, other than hard-coding static IPs in their respective hosts files?

Thanks

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install samba - \\linuxhost\share works from windows, and smbmount works from linux.

Answer 2

enable wins resolution on ubuntu or enable dns server on windows