Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:00 am, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 16:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:55, Technoslick wrote: What are the advantages of using dhcp for such small network of three computers. Kindly explain. I have fixed ips for my LAN of 5

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 12:10 pm, Saurav Gohain wrote: Hi, I have installed Mandrake 9.1 and is connected to a LAN that has both windows nt and linux machines. Using LIN , i can connect to the Linux machines and exchange files but I am unable to connect to the windows machine. In the lin

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:55 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:16:46 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have always used static addressing because I have never been able to work out how clients can be addressed by hostname when there is no fstab entry. Surely

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:17:09 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ping darkforce ping darkforce2 ping darkforce3 and it works fine. I don't have to do the IP address. well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't delved into it too much in Linux, but I

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 1:17 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2003 01:55 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 18:16:46 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I have always used static addressing because I have never been able to work out how clients can be

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 June 2003 08:57 am, JoeHill wrote: well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't delved into it too much in Linux, but I believe Samba takes care of that. Correct me if I am wrong. I also can ping by name or IP, though I have no DNS (which I believe

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 1:57 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:17:09 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: ping darkforce ping darkforce2 ping darkforce3 and it works fine. I don't have to do the IP address. well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 June 2003 09:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: So when Ronald pings darkforce2, how do you think it knows which box to find? There has to be a name server somewhere. Mine is on my router, but it could just as well be on this box. Anne I do have my machines IP addressess in /etc/hosts

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:51:54 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Oh, I beg your pardon Joe, I didn't see where you guys were talking about Samba use - I thought you meant just between 'Nix boxes. :-) Samba *was* *nix last time I checked... ;) it is just as useful without Win boxes

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 June 2003 09:37 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Well assuming you are using Dhcp then how are you managing to resolve the hostnames? When you ask to ping a host your system will first go to /etc/hosts to see if there is an entry there (that was a mistake in my original post. I said

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:37:36 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: So when Ronald pings darkforce2, how do you think it knows which box to find? There has to be a name server somewhere. Mine is on my router, but it could just as well be on this box. He answered above, you edit your

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:59 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 09:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: So when Ronald pings darkforce2, how do you think it knows which box to find? There has to be a name server somewhere. Mine is on my router, but it could just as well be on this box.

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:07:00 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but it's not psychic. That's supposed to be implemented in Kernel 2.6... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + People say Linux is ugly. How does that make you feel? +

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 2:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 08:57 am, JoeHill wrote: well, you've got to have some way of resolving IP to hostname. I haven't delved into it too much in Linux, but I believe Samba takes care of that. Correct me if I am wrong. I also can ping

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:12:18 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Samba will resolve NETBIOS names so my wild guess was correct! woot! It's kinda like a WINS server then, except it works most of the time... -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage:

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 June 2003 10:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: We were talking about Dhcp. Samba will resolve NETBIOS names for you which is entirely a different thing. By putting the names/adrresses in /etc/hosts you are using static addressing. derek So was I. I guess I don't understand the

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 10:12 am, Derek Jennings wrote: We were talking about Dhcp. Samba will resolve NETBIOS names for you which is entirely a different thing. By putting the names/adrresses in /etc/hosts you are using static

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 09:37, Derek Jennings wrote: snip Well assuming you are using Dhcp then how are you managing to resolve the hostnames? I believe it can't. I think that BIND, or some flavor similar, does that. When you ask to ping a host your system will first go to /etc/hosts to see if

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 June 2003 01:25 pm, Technoslick wrote: Technically..Yes. The only reason it is working is that your router has not ended any leases. With routers that have DHCP capability, I believe you can tell all of them (you can with Linksys and D-Link) to never terminate a lease. In

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 8:25 pm, Technoslick wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:24, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be used

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 16 June 2003 11:44 pm, Technoslick wrote: I bought an Epson C82 earlier in the year but found I couldn't get it to network properly off of my Intel print server. I ended up giving it to my wife as a direct printer to her computer. Bought me some points, if nothing else. ;0) It's a

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Technoslick
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 00:07, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 11:44 pm, Technoslick wrote: I bought an Epson C82 earlier in the year but found I couldn't get it to network properly off of my Intel print server. I ended up giving it to my wife as a direct printer to her

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 12:27 am, Technoslick wrote: It as either that or admit to her that I wasted nearly $200 on a color printer I couldn't use. :0] :-) They must have learned from the competition, as well as their customers. The old way was very kludge. Sounds like it! That's a

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-16 Thread AnnaNbruce
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:41:31 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Not that I don't waste a little myself, running a server all day and up to three workstations and my laptop. When my wife's is on hers, too, I swear we can hear the utility meter outside whirling so fast with the

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 3:24 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be used for my 3 comp LAN. I'm using DHCP here and it

RE: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Nathan Coad
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all, I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000. My

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:24, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be used for my 3 comp LAN. I'm using DHCP here and it

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:07, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 3:24 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On 15 Jun 2003 10:55:06 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: And when I need to step back and think about where everything is in my setup...even my feeble mind can remember the IP address of anything on the network. :0) Most DHCP servers will let you bind IPs to MAC address for more

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Technoslick
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 11:49, JoeHill wrote: On 15 Jun 2003 10:55:06 -0400 Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: And when I need to step back and think about where everything is in my setup...even my feeble mind can remember the IP address of anything on the network. :0) Most DHCP

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 3:55 pm, Technoslick wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 22:24, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be used

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 15 Jun 2003 10:55 am, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 05:07, Anne Wilson wrote: One advantage for using DHCP on a home network is if you have a laptop. You don't have fool around with redoing the network settings for each network... Accepted. A little while ago we had

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:55, Technoslick wrote: What are the advantages of using dhcp for such small network of three computers. Kindly explain. I have fixed ips for my LAN of 5 PCs. Just my two cents: I've always considered DHCP to be the lazy way out of a situation; that is, unless

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:24 AM 6/14/2003 +0100, you wrote: snip It is showing eth0 as having a virtual interface eth0:9 associated with it which has been assigned the ip address 169.252.233.128. But didn't you say your Router assigns addresses in the 10.10.10.0 range? Is the 169.252.x.x network anything to do with

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-15 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 16:14, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 00:55, Technoslick wrote: What are the advantages of using dhcp for such small network of three computers. Kindly explain. I have fixed ips for my LAN of 5 PCs. Just my two cents: I've always considered DHCP

[newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread Nathan Coad
Hi all, Ive just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000.  My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8smilh, with onboard lan (realtek chipset RTL8101L).  Mandrake works fine with everything except for LAN.  I have a link light on the rj45 socket, so everything seems

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all, I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8smilh, with onboard lan (realtek chipset RTL8101L). Mandrake works fine with everything except for LAN. I have a link

RE: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread Nathan Coad
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all, I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8smilh, with onboard lan (realtek chipset RTL8101L). Mandrake works

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 7:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all, I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8smilh, with onboard lan (realtek chipset RTL8101L). Mandrake works fine with everything except for LAN. I have a link light

RE: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread Nathan Coad
: Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 7:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all, I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8smilh, with onboard lan (realtek chipset RTL8101L). Mandrake works fine

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 8:41 am, Nathan Coad wrote: I forgot to mention, but the network is setup up as an active directory (microsoft) domain. Will this make any difference? SNIP No. That has nothing to do with IP address assignment. derek -- --

RE: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread Nathan Coad
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 5:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 7:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all, I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 10:04 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Well, I have followed ur advice, Derek. This is now the result of running the ifconfig command: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:ED:69:AB:33 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all, I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8smilh, with onboard lan (realtek chipset RTL8101L). Mandrake works fine with everything except for LAN. Did you try

RE: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread Nathan Coad
Yep, I've tried that -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Meyer Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread Dennis Myers
. Hall Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2003 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:06 am, Nathan Coad wrote: Hi all, I’ve just installed mandrake 9.1 as a dual boot system with windows 2000. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 12:16 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: DId you logon to your router and adjust things there? I've got a Dlink router and it let me assign the range of IP addresses to be used for my 3 comp LAN. I'm using DHCP here and it works fine. What are the advantages of using dhcp for

Re: [newbie] madrake 9.1 network problems

2003-06-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 07:54:43 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: What are the advantages of using dhcp for such small network of three computers. Kindly explain. I have fixed ips for my LAN of 5 PCs. From the little I know, DHCP does more than just assign IPs. It also tells the