RE: [SLE] Basic setup questions [Part 1]

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Date: 10/13/05

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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:54:36 -0400

    > > On Wednesday 12 October 2005 21:46, Ian Marlier wrote:
    > >
    > >> (Note: this is assuming a static IP setup. If you're
    > >> letting Linksys' DHCP server touch the client, things
    > >> get all messy.)

    > > So, you imply that the LinkSys DHCP server is doing more than
    > > dishing out IP addresses in the range that I specify? I've only
    > > got three computers, so I could just go all-static, but I thought
    > > that if I specified static addresses for some computers, outside
    > > the range allowed for DHCP, then the DHCP server would ignore
    > > the computers that had the static addresses. Is there something
    > > else that it diddles besides just numeric IP addresses?
    >
    > Why not try an experiment?
    >
    > First, configure a computer with DHCP and see what works.
    > Then, change to static config, including default route & DNS
    > and see if
    > everything still works.

    Because I'm not entirely sure what "see what works" and
    "see if everything still works" actually refers to.

    I'm browsing freely, and KMail can get and send mail
    to/from my ISP. Those two functions work fine with
    _either_ static or dynamic addresses on the PCs, as
    long as I ensure that the static addresses are outside
    the range that the LinkSys thinks it owns for dynamic
    allocation (learned that the hard way just a couple of
    days ago). Other than that, I'm not sure I _have_ anything
    working that I could try under the two addressing regimes.

    I have not yet started configuring fetchmail and IMAP,
    or Samba... which is why I question your "everything",
    above... there is no "everything" yet, to "still work". :-)

    Tonight, perhaps, I'll spend a couple of hours and a
    ton of calories dashing up and downstairs as I try to
    get the two SuSE machines seeing each other's files via
    Samba. I probably won't get so adventurous as to boot
    the wife's system into Windows 98 and see if _that_
    works with a Samba server. That fountain of disappointment
    can wait for another night.

    Assuming I haven't goofed something while sniffing
    about the Samba stuff, I'll spend part of the weekend
    futzing with the e-mail server stuff and trying to
    read mail on it from my old iBook.

    Yes, I know that this stuff is all pretty well bullet-proof,
    and to most people it's as simple and natural as
    breathing. But I have a talent for misinterpreting.
    When it's applied, it puts up obstacles that other
    people wouldn't even think could exist, because it
    would never occur to them to interpret a term or an
    instruction the way that I did. Keeps life... interesting.

    Kevin

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