Thanks! I will give this a try tonight. I originally had the router as the gateway, and I have the IPs of the ISP nameservers. However, I think I may not have started the network after setting up this configuration. I'm not sure as it was about 1:30 am...:) 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 12:35 PM To: Cleary_Mike@emc.com Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] Home network questions One step at a time. Your router is not a name server. It is a gateway. However, it can probably tell you who your ISP's nameserver is. I'm assuming your router contains four (or more) inside ports and a WAN port, and that they're set up correctly. Here's a quick test: Use the "get address automatically" setting. Restart the network on the Linux boxen. Find out what the IP addresses are (/sbin/ifconfig eth0). Ping one machine's IP address from the other. If it doesn't work, the problem is the router. Your router may limit the address range you can use. Check the documentation. You can also make it work for now while you learn more about the messy details. Just pop the DHCP assigned addresses into the /etc/hosts file. It's not like you have so many machines that the router is likely to reassign a DHCP address to another system. Bill Sheehan Postmaster 617-373-7927 Cleary_Mike@emc. com To: suse-linux-e@suse.com cc: 07/03/02 11:34 Subject: RE: [SLE] Home network questions AM 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... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com