At 05:46 PM 12/14/2002 -0500, you wrote:
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
Well honestly theres just me using linux. Its a dualboot machine. Yes I see what you're getting at Slick, and I'm not sure it would be overkill to follow your advice.
Using a static address for now works so I'll see what happens & If/when I find another answer as to why this is the way it is, I shall post it. Ty for the reply, quite an interesting way to do things.
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