Re: [PLUG] Dumb network question

2013-12-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote: > So I gather that the static IPs need to be set in the router, not in the > computers. I assumed that it would be like my laser printers, where I set > the IP in the printer's control panel. Indeed, my desktop computer gets > restarted every time PGE

Re: [PLUG] Dumb network question

2013-12-27 Thread Jeff Kirsher
Static IP's are set at each computer. If you want to reserve DHCP address in your DHCP server (which I assume is your router), you would use the MAC address to specify what MAC address gets what IP. MAC address's are unique Hex numbers that each NIC has, so if you have a computer with 2 NIC's the

Re: [PLUG] Dumb network question

2013-12-27 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013 16:32:32 -0800 Bruce Kilpatrick dijo: >On 12/27/2013 03:41 PM, wes wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Rich Shepard >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>> Rebooting changes its address? If so, that will not do. The desktop needs to

Re: [PLUG] Dumb network question

2013-12-27 Thread Neal
Why not use hostnames instead of IP addresses, and never worry about DHCP vs. static? I have never messed with NFS, but will be shocked if it doesn't. NealS ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Dumb network question

2013-12-27 Thread Bruce Kilpatrick
On 12/27/2013 03:41 PM, wes wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> >>> Rebooting changes its address? If so, that will not do. The desktop needs >>> to know where its server is. How can I fix the laptop (and the desktop >>

Re: [PLUG] Dumb network question

2013-12-27 Thread wes
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > Rebooting changes its address? If so, that will not do. The desktop needs > > to know where its server is. How can I fix the laptop (and the desktop > > too, for that matter) with am IP addre

Re: [PLUG] Dumb network question

2013-12-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Rebooting changes its address? If so, that will not do. The desktop needs > to know where its server is. How can I fix the laptop (and the desktop > too, for that matter) with am IP address that will always be the same? Bet your house network use

Re: [PLUG] Dumb network question

2013-12-27 Thread Joe Shisei Niski
I didn't read all of your earlier thread in detail, but my first guess is that you're getting your ip addr via DHCP and need it to be static. Here's one quick how-to: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux-basics-set-a-static-ip-on-ubuntu On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:35 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I re

Re: [PLUG] Dumb network question

2013-12-27 Thread Larry T
Wes from Clinic has helped me and at our office, we set the length of time to remember DHCP to a long time I think it's like a month. That way once assigned an address, the same computer, every time within that month or??? it will get the same address. One of the workers is in and logs on 3-4 da

[PLUG] Dumb network question

2013-12-27 Thread John Jason Jordan
I recently imposed on everyone here asking for help to get NFS working between my laptop (192.168.0.155, server) and my desktop (192.168.0.146, client). Today I had to reboot the laptop. Afterward the desktop was unable to mount the share. And showmount -e 192.168.0.155 said there was no path to th