On Sunday 09 January 2005 02:58 pm, C. Hurschler wrote: > Hello Kevin, > > no, it does'nt need to connect over a DNS server, its running on a small > home LAN. I noticed that my lo interface wasnn't active after cobaco > suggested looking at that. Once I had fixed that in > /etc/network/interfaces I could use KDE again. > > Since I can only mount the NFS export using an ip address for my server > (athlon), I was looking around in the various network configuration HOWTOs > but couldn't really figure out how to get hostnames resolved on my LAN. I > have a router which can tell me what devices are attached and what their > hostnames and ip addresses are, so isn't there some way that mount can > access that information to resolve the hostname ips? Anyway, the real > problem with KDE has been solved.
If your other machines (particularly, athlon) have fixed ip addresses, you can add stanzas for them in /etc/hosts on your client machine and your system should then be able to resolve them, i.e.: 127.0.0.1 localhost clientname ip.addr.of.athlon athlon Alternatively, what kind of names will your router resolve for you? I think that if ping can resolve it, mount should be able to, too. I thought I remembered having to fully qualify names of computers on our network at work with our 2wire router (i.e. servername.gateway.2wire.net), but testing it I see that that is not the case. Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
