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Brian Durant wrote:
We were talking about DHCP, but I believe that the explanation I originally received for the necessity of filling out the host and domain names in YAST2 is that this is for DNS. Perhaps I am wrong.
This may be true, but this you also have to do in Windows when it is installed, just before you agree to their license.
This I understand and do to a large extent agree with your point of view. but does it bring me closer to understanding my configuration problem and how to solve?
Noted. Is Win or Mac a non networking OS in your definition?
What I mean is you don't 'have' to login (and at least with Windows can easily bypass any pseudo login). It really doesn't have a true concept of a user, such as NT, W2000, Linux, etc. I consider them more of a desktop OS.
OK, how do I connect through the computer name? All I see in the KDE control center (when logged on as "root") are IP addresses listed as examples. Can I just add names in LISa? Should they be in capital letters or small? Nothing is being shared to the Internet. By "logging on", I mean connecting to the other computers so that I can mount their hard drives.
From what I have seen, LISa is to be used to browse network shares, not samba shares. Have you tried in Konquerer smb://"computername"/"share name", i.e smb://jmorris/C. To mount the drives, you need to be root. Try mount -t smbfs -o rw,user,username=(yourusername for the share), password=(passwd for that share) //"computername"/"sharename" mountpoint, or. i.e. mount -t smbfs -o rw,user,username=joe,password=xxxxx //jmorris/C /mnt/samba. If all you are going to do it read/write, I can do it with my Windows machine downstairs through Konq with smb:// as above. HTH -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871