Femme, For the longest time, I was letting my Lynksys router/firewall/gateway do the DHCP for my mixed O/S network. During that time, my NT 4.0 Server was acting as a Primary Domain Control (PDC) and a secured resource center file sharing between my business and family needs. I had no problems with this set-up, letting my MDK 8.2, 9.0 and RH systems acting as DHCP clients. All that was necessary was to make sure that my router/firewall.gateway was set up correctly to assign addresses as I wanted them to be.
Once I set-up the RH 8.0 file sharing server (I had already removed the NT server from the network long before), I had some issues with this set-up using Samba. Instead of playing to much with this, I just went to static addressing all around, making sure that my HOSTS and LMHOSTS files were proper and synchronized. It's been this way since and I have had no problems or complaints to share. With my own network, being down is really difficult for me to accept. Sometimes, it causes me to take the shortest means to my goal and I lose the chance to learn how to get what I want done my way. Sorry, I can't give you any ideas at to why the static addressing was the way that worked for me. However, you can mix and match. Keep the router DHCP server, Windows boxes as clients and make the Linux boxes static. You will need to set-up HOSTS/LMHOSTS files on every machine for the static addressed machines to be "seeable" by the DHCP clients by their netbios name, and you will need to make sure you set-up the router as your gateway for the Linux machines and your ISP DNS server(s) for DNS. HOSTS and LMHOSTS files only need to be created once and then copied to all machines as needed, so this isn't as messy as it sounds for a small network. Does this help any? T ----- Original Message ----- From: "FemmeFatale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux installation & Router Advice > >FWIW, I had installed 8.2 when we put a router in for the adsl. The >changeover from shared connection to PPPoE was painless, and I have seen no >problems that relate to the router issue. When I upgraded to 9.0 no problems >emerged either. > >Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems on my experience to be a non-issue. > >HTH > >Anne Thx Anne. However my experience has been... Odd. I went to install linux, everything went fine & I chose "DHCP connection" as I had always in the past. The Router I use is acting as a DHCP Server after all, giving out addy's for our comps here. Fine... Install went OK, it couldn't update packages but I expected that. Rebooted into linux, it was fine. No internet. That was my first clue something was amiss. Fiddling with things with both the expert & novice controls I found out that I had to disable "DHCP/Bootp" & enable a static IP addy. WTH? Makes no sense, and I had to put in gateway & DNS numbers (the routers IP sufficed here). Yet in Winsucks it works fine as a DHCP Server!? OK something is amiss... but what? ------------- FemmeFatale Good Decisions You boss Made: "We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts." - Source: Dilbert ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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