On 26-Jul-2001 Rusty Carruth wrote:
> Glen Sagers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> No, I don't think so. All the machines are technically workstations, a
>> desktop, a
>> laptop, and a win machine. Mandrake ICS is setup, but I haven't manually
>> configured much of anything on them, yet. I'd just like to be able to
>> easily
>> transfer files from the laptop to the desktop, as well as the browsing
>> capability
>> that ICS provides (working fine).
>>
>> Do I need to manually setup DHCP or DNS?
>> Glen
>
> Well, sort of.
>
> In /etc/hosts on all machines, add the ip addresses and names
> of all the machines.
>
> Sorta like this:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> 10.40.1.1 amachine
> 10.40.1.2 anothermach
> 10.40.1.3 yetanother
>
> and so on.
>
> Then it should be much faster...
>
> rc
If who have Windows machine as you said above you may also want to enter this
information in the WINDOWS-DIR\hosts file.
If you're network gets bigger you may want to setup a small dns server for your
network. The method with /etc/hosts works fine. But you'll have to keep all
hosts files on all machine up to date or you'll fancy results.
If you have more than 5 I would really suggest to setup dns. Have a look at the
DNS-Howto. It's quite good and you get a working dns server in (almost) no time
Gregor
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E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27-Jul-2001
Time: 09:15:40
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