I forgot to mention this in the first post, but I have already done this. One machine has the address 192.168.22.1 and the other is 192.168.22.2. I then updated both /etc/hosts files, but they still couldn't ping each other. My name server list consists of 192.168.254.254 which is the IP of the router. The domain search list has only "local" in it. These settings were chosen automatically for me on one machine (when I chose the "automatic address setup" option). Mike ------------------------------------------ Cleary_Mike@emc.com ------------------------------------------ "A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse." - anon -----Original Message----- From: Bill Sheehan [mailto:b.sheehan@neu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 11:26 AM To: Cleary_Mike@emc.com Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Home network questions Hi Mike, You don't need to set up NIS. All you need is to assign IP addresses to your machines and put them in the /etc/hosts file. Use a reserved address range like 192.168.x.x . You might want to do some reading first. Try the Linux Documentation Project: http://www.tldp.org . There are full-length books in there, including the famous "NAG" (Network Adminstration Guide). Bill Sheehan Postmaster 617-373-7927 Cleary_Mike@emc. com To: suse-linux-e@suse.com cc: 07/03/02 11:02 Subject: [SLE] Home network questions AM I just installed 8.0 on my new machine last night - so I now have linux on 2 machines which are connected through a router to my DSL modem. I managed to get access to the internet on both machines by choosing to "get IP address automatically" in the Yast2 network module. Also, I stumbled across the command "rcnetconfig -start" in the manual and tried it on both machines. This was what finally gave me a connection. Do I have to give this command every time I boot into linux? However I cannot ping either machine from the other. I want each machine to be able to "see" the other machine, share files, etc. I suspect that I need to set up NIS in order to do this (as you can see I don't know much about setting up a little home network...:-) Do I need to set up one machine as a server & the other a client? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! TIA, Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------- <mailto:Cleary_Mike@emc.com> Cleary_Mike@emc.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- It said, "Requires Windows 95 or better", So I installed linux...