On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 04:17, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 3:13 am, Anton wrote: > > I am trying to set up my mandrake 9.1 box to be the gateway to my > > recently created network with a single windoze ME machine on the private > > subnet. > > How does the MDK machine link to the Internet? Modem or router? If it is an > ethernet router is it on the same ethernet network? > > > Another issue is that the dhcp doesn't seem to be working. > > My advice would be to ditch DHCP; you might get it to work after fiddling > around some more, but why bother? In my opinion it is unnecessary on a > network with only two or three boxes. Set them all up to use hosts files, > fixed IP addresses and fixed gateway addresses. (There is a hosts file on ME. > It is somewhere under windows/system32 if I remember correctly.) If you set > up a hosts file then you make DNS setup easier, since both boxes can use the > ISP servers for external addresses, and hosts files for anything local. > > HTH > > (I never had any problem with ME, when it was on my laptop, but the people on > the tech-support forum I frequent hate it with a passion.)
I would agree with this completely. Even at the office with only 10 comps I don't use a local dns but do use dhcp for the laptops bring in and out on the wireless. In winders look for the file hosts.sam cp it to hosts, edit, and even win98 can do this level of hostname resolution. DHCP has it's place but it's hardly a requirement. The fewer things you have effectively running on a network the less there is to fix.
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