Computer names in my home network

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I have a home network with WIN-XP and Linux computers
I manage to access the printers and disks from one machine to another but I always need to use the ip address 192.168.1.2, 3, 5 etc. When the router boots, these change and one computer that was previously with 2 at the end may change to have 4 at the end.
How do I set it up so that each machine has its own name (or address) and it sticks to it.
 
Another approach is to use MAC filtering to preassign IP addresses.
DHCP is still used on all systems but the router predicts the IP address to be
assigned to each MAC address see -- effectively creating Static addresses without
ever touching all the systems.

Once that works, you can add addresses to your HOST file to make the association
of address-->name, eg
192.168.1.2 Hewie
192.168.1.3 Dewie
192.168.1.4 Louie

Copy the host file to all systems and on each
ipconfig /flushdns
net stop "dns client"
net start "dns client"​

Now you can access by-name, eg
ping Hewie​
 
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