On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 10:42 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:45, Derek Jennings wrote: > > [...snip] > > Erm... When I said had you run the drakconnect wizard I meant had you > > gone into Mandrake ControlCentre>Networking>Drakconnect and pressed the > > 'Wizard' button. > > I ran drakconnect from the command line, and it started the GUI and > proceeded in the same way as if I had started it from the "K" button. > With the added advantage [I thought] that if there were error messages > I'd be able to catch them and paste them here for the list to see. I > remember doing something like that when I was trying to get Xine working > [again, with the help of this list] :) > Was it not a good idea? > Should I do it again from the GUI? > [actually, I'm waiting on clarification from earlier answers about > changing it to a static address, and how to know what to set it to.] > > > The wizard will write the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > that Adolfo has asked you about. > > here's the contents of that file: > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > ONBOOT=yes > > Thanks again for your help:) > > -- > Merlin Zener
Yes Your file shows that your computer is trying to obtain an IP address from a DHCP server, but since you do not have one it is not going to work. If you just run through the Wizard in the drakconnect GUI you can change that to static. Just pick an IP address on the same subnet as the windows computer. (First three groups of numbers the same as windows, but the last group different (Do not use 0, or 255)) derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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