On Saturday 11 December 2004 13:52, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
Dear list
I want to use 9.1 SuSE with Firebird as a database server in a Novell 5.0 LAN with mixed Win98 and WinXP workstations. The DHCP derived addresses for all machines (except maybe the file server) come from the DSL router.
My question is ...
1 Is it possible to name the machine and use the name instead of an IP address for the dbms and let the router assign addresses as it sees fit. If so, how do I do that?
I don't know whether your DSL router can do that but 9.1 can if you set up the DHCP server correctly. You will also have to have the local DNS setup on your 9.1 machine. See /usr/share/doc/packages/dhcp-server/DDNS-howto.txt Maybe your DSL router will work the same way.
2 If no, should I assign a fixed IP address forever? (don't know how to do that)
See if you can access your DSL router via a web page. Open a browser and goto http://<insert DSL router IP here >
The only way I know what the IP address happens to be is to restart and watch closely the screen flies by as it gets assigned. The latest one happens to be 192.168.0.11. I can ping it OK.
Try the command ifconfig or, on windows try ipconfig from a DOS command window. Regards Paul -- Paul Hewlett (Linux #359543) Email:`echo az.oc.evitcaten@ttelweh | rev` Tel: +27 21 852 8812 Cel : +27 72 719 2725 FAX: +27 866720563 --