Thank you Nick, Yes I have ping working, and have changed the IP numbers as you suggested.
Our emails have crossed Thank you for you tolerance, help and patience Regards Chris Thomas On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 17:46 -0500, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:39 PM, chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > many thanks to all for you kindness and help. > > I have samba installed, but only with default settings as I wouldn't > > know where to start. > > disk sharing is enabled with with the common partition on all machines. > > > > could you point me to where I would look for information on installing a > > simple dns server on my main machine? > > > > I will alter the ip numbers as you and Nick have suggested and have a > > play later to see what happens. > > get it to the point where ping works before futzing around with other > services. > > if basic networking isn't working then there is no point in the other services
