I have enough systems that I decided against etc/hosts and instead used samba as a wins server, you might experiment with that if your playing around.
Right, thanks everyone for their comments but I had to borrow a book in the end to start from scratch with ping etc.
Suse's downfall apparently lies in the file /etc/hosts which did not include any of the people I wanted to be able to access the network (an option I had looked for in YAST...).
Now for the fun of tweaking everything so that it works like a dream.
Cheers
Ingo
blabla wrote:
Hi,
I know this issue is a firm favourite...
I've had Suse 9.1, now got 9.2 on my desktop and want to set up a network with two laptops, one WIN98SE and one Win2k.
Despite googling, tweaking, throwing computers against the wall I have NEVER been able to get the dreaded thing to work.
Anybody out there with a similar setup?
Cheers
Ingo
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lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
I have enough systems that I decided against etc/hosts and instead used samba as a wins server, you might experiment with that if your playing around.
Well, thing is it wouldn't let me log in as a WINS server - forever wanted passwords only to reject stoically whatever I threw at it...
Suse's downfall apparently lies in the file /etc/hosts which did not include any of the people I wanted to be able to access the network (an option I had looked for in YAST...).
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