Re: Linksys CableDsl Router and DHCP etc.

From: Michael W. Cocke (cocke_at_catherders.com)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 20:49:06 -0400

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:29:54 -0400, kung__fusion@hotmail.com wrote:

>On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 21:37:07 GMT, CJT <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote:
>
>>If you've only got a couple of machines, just put them in the
>>"hosts" files on each machine with their local IP addresses
>>and whatever names you choose. You don't need to run DNS or
>>a WINS server for simple name resolution.
>
>Hi. Thanks for the reply. I did that and I can ping both machines
>by name, but doing a lookup fails. I'm wondering if maybe I
>put the machine names in lmhosts if Samba will work?

Exactly - lmhosts is the hosts file that samba uses.

>
>>Use ftp (not from your browser, but from an ftp client) to
>>transfer files, initiated from the XP machine (since as I
>>recall it has a client out-of-the-box, but not a server).
>>
>>If you want to do Windows style shares, I think your best bet
>>is Samba. It isn't that hard to do.
>
>I'm just wondering if it will work if name lookup fails.
>Ping seems to be smart enough to look in the hosts
>file. I just installed mandrake 9.1 and I'm at the same
>point AFA the network goes. Although I must say
>things came up workin' pretty good out of the box.
>I just don't want to jump into Samba setup if it's
>doomed to failure. It worries me that nothing
>will lookup the local machine names(except for
>ping that is.)
>
>Is anyone else using the trick of forcing dynamic ip
>assigment to known values and putting that ip info
>in the hosts files? (That's how I got ping to work)
>
>Thanks for any info.

It's kind of a philosophy thing and kind of a technical design
thing... there's a sharp break between samba and tcp/ip. ping uses
tcp/ip. Samba, while it rides along on top of tcp/ip, is NOT directly
connected.

There are several ways to actually connect it up, but to be honest,
it's more of a pain than it's worth for small networks.

However, look into swat and webmin for simpler configuration options.

Mike- 

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