On Wednesday 20 October 2004 17:07, jim barnes wrote:
For what you are trying to do your routing table will suffice. If both machines are on the same subnet, routing is not needed.
# ifup route
This makes no sense as you do not have an interface "route".
You do not make (or edit) the routes file, the program /sbin/route does (in a round about way). Read man route for configuring your routing table manually or let yast do it as part of your network card setup.
Thank you Jim it looks simpler than I thought . I deactivated and simplified a lot of things I had configured and which appear unnecessary. and a lot of error messages have disappeared.
How are you trying to share files? nfs? scp? samba? fish?
You will laugh, in fact I tried to configure nearly them all, one after the other, following the manual page after page, and thinking they were all necessary. But I would appreciate if you advised me for the simplest solution. I suppose I must configure a DNS server anyway, and what else ?
The output of ifconfig and route from both machines could be helpful also.
Here is the output of Ifconfig on my main machine # ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:75:7F:38:25 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xec00 On my laptop I have a similar one I suppose it is correct. There is also a problem with portmap on my main machine : at boot I have messages : "Starting RPC portmap daemonportmap : fork : Success failed "no portmapper running" and when trying to mount a directory from one machine to the other with the mount command, I get the message : "RPC remote system error - no route to host" I will be grateful if you can stil help me. -- ________________ Paul Ollion Proud Linux user - SuSE - 9.1