On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 07:58, Steve Kaufman wrote: > [...snip] > As a newbie this command intrigued me so I played with it and the way to > use it is 'kdesu kedit /etc/hosts' and it will then prompt you for root > password and when you put it in it should open the file in edit and you > can then save it. >
yes, that worked - thanks Steve. So now I'm back to the original problem. I was able to edit my /etc/hosts file so it now reads: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.10 laptop.workgroup laptop 192.168.0.20 cel2gthai.workgroup cel2gthai But the problem is still the same as before: If I set the NIC to "auto" in DrakeConnect it hangs on "bringing up ETH0" when booting, and I can't ping to/from the laptop. If I set it to 192.168.0.20, then the machines can ping, but the internet doesn't work. And I haven't even got to the stage of getting Samba sorted yet... -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618
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