Thank you. I have the system up now and running thanks to the help offered from clug members. Can you point me to some reading regarding the points you have raised.
Regards Chris Thomas On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 14:59 +1300, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 169.254. etc is not a real IP address. It is one allocated by zeroconf > > or similar when you cannot get a real world ip address. Set them to > > 192.168.1.x > > If all these machines are running zeroconf, and there is no DHCP > server active, then they will probably already have given themselves > link-local addresses and names. > > As Nick says, the IP addresses will be something like 169.154.x.y > > Whether you use DHCP, static addressing, or zeroconf, the machines > should be reachable by name where the names will be <hostname>.local > E.g. machine1.local laptop.local etc. No DNS server should be > required. > > regards > > Eliot
