On Tuesday 01 Nov 2005 02:21, Terry Liittschwager wrote: > I've installed 10.1 on my desktop machine (e5200). It's hooked to an > ethernet router (eth0) as are my wife's machine (k7-700) and my laptop > (i5100). K7-700 and i5100 are running WinXP, as was e5200 before changing > it to Linux. There is an HP970Cse hooked to k7-700. Prior to converting > e5200 to Linux, all three machines could access the other's files, all > could use the HP printer on k7-700, and all could access the Internet. > Now, however, though e5200 can still access the Internet, it cannot access > the other two machines or the printer on k7-700, and I'm trying to > troubleshoot the problem. > > I suspect I have somehow loused up the name of e5200 within Linux and that > that may be connected to or the cause of the networking problems. For > example, if I launch Konsole, I'm shown as [EMAIL PROTECTED] terry]$ in the > command prompt and the taskbar shows [EMAIL > PROTECTED]:/home/terry-Shell-Konsole. > However, if I launch Emacs, the top line of the window shows > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the taskbar show the same. > > I'm a complete newbie at Linux, but as I understand it, in both instances > the character string following @ should be the machine name. So my > question is, where, in Mandriva 10.1, can I set the machine name so that it > will be known as e5200 to all applications? > > Any opinions as to whether this problem is related to the larger problem > will also be much appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > > Terry Liittschwager > in the wilds of western Oregon 30 miles east of Eugene up the McKenzie > River No your hostname will not prevent networking to Windows computers working. Your hostname is currently "e5200" if you want a different one enter it in MCC>Networking>Miscellaneous
To network with Windows computers you need to install samba-client and samba-server You should open your firewall on Linux to samba service if you have one. If you use Mandriva 2006 you should see the windows network in the "Devices" icon on the desktop, or install smb4k for a windows explorer type interface. To set your windows workgroup KDE ControlCentre>Network>Samba admin mode also here enable those linux users who will share their home directories with windows. For your printer run the Printer GUI from Mandriva control Centre. It should find and configure the Windows printer. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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