If I want to leave DHCP enabled so as to allow me to bring several computers from work home and connect them to my home LAN and move files around on the LAN, what are my "alternatives" to lmhosts on both the linux and win side? Paul
On Saturday 19 July 2003 08:08 am, Lanman wrote: > Paul; If your router is handing off DHCP addresses, and your PC's are using > their lmhosts file to find each other, you'll run into problems every time > the router hands out new IP addresses. Try logging into the router and > disabling the DHCP service, or use IP adresses that are outside of the > range of IP's that your DHCP service has reserved. Then update your lmhosts > file, and restart or renew your IP addresses on each Windows box. > > Lanman > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 7/19/2003 at 7:09 AM Paul Kaplan wrote: > >I changed the configuration of my home network and now am having problems > >seeing the machines from each other. > > > >Formerly, I shared an internet connection from one machine and had a > >switch to > >connect the local machines. The ethernet card on the internal network had > >a > >fixed IP address as did all the local machines. The local machines used a > >gateway IP address and a fixed DNS server address (from the ISP). I used > >Samba and was able to see all the local machines from the linux box > >(LM9.1). > >On the Windows side (W2k), the samba shares appeared in Network > >Neighborhood. > > > >Now I have a router on the network which dynamically assigns IP address to > >the > >LAN and all the machines are set to DHCP. Initially I made no changes to > >my > >Samba setup other than to update the IP addresses of the LAN machines in > >/etc/samba/lmhosts). I can no longer see the LAN machines from my Linux > >box > >(although I can ping them all by IP address or name). From the Windows > >side, > >although I can find my samba shares by "search for computer" and > >subsequently > >force a virtual drive mapping, I can no longer see the machines under > >network > >neighborhood, nor can I manually create a virtual drive map under "connect > >network drive". > > > >I'd like to be able to get at my winboxes from the lin box, and understand > >the > >win weirdness. > > > >Any ideas what the problem is and how to fix it? > > > >TIA > >Paul > > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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