On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 20:19, Anne Wilson wrote: > [...snip] > Right - well the first thing is to see what your windows boxes are > using. Check *all* the network config tabs and write down the > results. It's very likely that they are using dhcp - i.e. letting > the isp set your ip. That's fine on many counts, though there are > some advantages in using static I, my preferred option. > > Once we know what the rest of your lan is doing we can advise you how > to make your Mandrake box join in <g> >
Thanks for your reply, Anne. There's only the two computers, connected with a crossover cable. One is a "Bitsa" - a Celeron 2G desktop and the other is a Thinkpad. Both came with WIN2KPRO installed, and all I had to do to make them talk when both are running windoze was to create a username on each machine for the other machine. Simple. Both have "Obtain an IP address automatically" selected in the TCP/IP properties. Clicking on Network Identification reveals that both are on "WORKGROUP"; the desktop is named CEL2GTHAI [because it's a 2G Celeron machine that I bought in Thailand] and the laptop is named THINKPAD. Running "ipconfig" from a DOS prompt shows: laptop: Connection-specific DNS Suffix. . : Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.5.217 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : C:\> desktop: Connection-specific DNS Suffix. . : Autoconfiguration IP Address. . . : 169.254.115.144 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : C:\> Thanks again for your help :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618
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