On Wednesday 07 January 2004 09:52 am, Merlin Zener wrote: > I ran the drakeconnect wizard again, but it wouldn't let me NOT put in > a DNS server or [the other one - I can't remember now] It complained > that the DNS Server should be in the form n.n.n.n and suggested [IIRC] > 186.192.0.3 and 186.192.0.2. I'm not sure of those numbers, I'm going > from memory here. It was 7AM when I was trying to sort out what was > going wrong and that's late, even for me...
That would be Gateway. You can always use 127.0.0.1 which is the IP address for localhost as the DNS. Gateways should NOT be required, IIRC. I have never used zeroconf to try to network machines together so I don't know how zeroconf sets a default DNS or Gateway since there is none. Localhost would be my guess, however. If you really want to go back to zeroconf and try to let the wizard's work things out, you can simply check the DHCP/Bootp/zeroconf checkbox and let tmdns generate an IP for you. Then you can ping hostname to get the IP address that has been generated and add that to the hosts file under Windows and hope that it stays the same each time you boot up. I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you browse through some of the available Mandrake Linux documentation, understanding that there may be language difficulties. You may get lucky and find a similar howto that is in your native language. Below are links that should be available on your local Linux machine that can talk you through how to setup networking on your machine step by step. This is probably much better for you than asking general questions and having us give you specific answers that don't contain a step by step guide. Given your difficulties, I am suggesting that you would probably be better served with a step by step guide. file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Ethernet/Ethernet-HOWTO.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Net/index.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Linux-Modem-Sharing/index.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/SMB/SMB-HOWTO.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Intranet-Server/Intranet-Server-HOWTO.html file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Netscape+Proxy.html -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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