On Sunday 16 Oct 2005 17:32, you wrote: > > One problem is when I go through Control Center I get to points that > I'm not sure what to put in. > It's often so, first time.
> First let me give you a bit about our network setup: > > We have our Internet connection fed directly into a Linksys Wireless > Router. My, Tracie's, and Mom's main [ Windoze ] computers are linked > directly to the router. Everything else, with the exception of the > laptop, goes through a Linksys Switch connected to the router. At any > given time there may be as many as seven or eight computers > connected. Never fewer that four, unless someone turns one off. > We have a similar setup here. > The router handles all the different computers talking to each other. > That's fine, so far. > NOW, in Control Center it asks for "DHCP host name". Is that the > router? I've never set up dhcp - I use static IPs for all our boxes, linux and windows workstations and laptops - so there is some guesswork here. I think it's highly unlikely that your router is handing out Internet addresses, so it would not be appropriate there. As I say, I haven't seen this screen - is it looking for IP number groups or literally a name, in which case it would by your ISP's address, I would think. You really do need someone who uses dhcp to help. > OR, is that the network work group? The workgroup is the one that windows calls WORKGROUP - or whatever you have substituted on the windows boxes. Be careful of case-sensitivity. > If it's the router do I > put in the address [ 192.168.1.0 ] or something else? The router is your gateway address - which it will also ask for. BTW - is that really the address? I've never seen one set to end in 0. > In the next > screen I get a message: > > "Please enter your host name. > Your host name should be a fully-qualified host name, > such as 'mybox.mylab.myco.com'. Did you set a fully qualified name when you set up the computer? If not we'll have to find where you can alter it. The example shows you the sort of name you need. Basically it is boxname.workgroup.extension where extension is not a top-level domain such as .com. > You may also enter the IP address of the gateway if you have one. Router address. > Last but not least you can also type in > your DNS server IP addresses." > Your ISP should have given you a couple of DNS server addresses - which should also have been entered on the windows boxes. > Then at the bottom it asks "Host name (optional) > ______________________" > > UH??????????????????? > That foxes me :-) > As I recall M$ Windoze just needs DHCP set to automatic and a work > group. [ to lazy this morning to check that out *<[:oD ] > Something like that, though I would have thought that even with dhcp you would need to put in the dns servers. It has to know who is going to tell it aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd. translates to somebody.else.com :-) > Frank Wrote: > >BY THE WAY: Please remove your 'Reply > > To'............................................ > > Shouldn't be a problem right now. Yes, it still is. You need to remove it so that the list manager can put the list as the reply-to. All your normal mail will come directly to you without that line set. Its purpose is for situations like having to send a message from a work machine but wanting to receive the reply on your laptop account or home account. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Mandriva hints & tips: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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