Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Thursday 08 December 2005 05:42 pm, Marc wrote:
The other odd thing is that to access files in the new machine from
across the network I have to use fish://192.168.0.3 If I use
fish://newmachine it will not work, but that is just a minor inconvenience
that I can live with.
Thanks folks for all the help so far
Marc
Hmm, maybe this is it?
In /etc/hosts do you have a line (this is for each and every comp on the LAN)
that says something like:
192.168.0.3 fish://192.168.0.3 newmachine
I'm really not sure what you conventions are. Here for example though, my
fully qualified domain name is "darkforce.ky.org", and the ip address is
"192.168.0.100".
So the line in my /etc/hosts file(s) says:
192.168.0.100 darkforce.ky.org darkforce
and I can ping or whatever just by doing "ping darkforce". If that line is not
there, I have to do a "ping 192.168.0.100" before it will work.
I think you are missing something here. He is using
fish://192.168.0.3 or fish://newmachine in Konqueror to make a
connection using ssh to another machine. fish: is used like http:
or ftp: when specifying an URL. It works about like using Konqueror
to connect to a FTP server - you can brows directories, and
transfer files.
If he were using static IP addresses, or if the DHCP server on the
router can be configured to always give the same IP address based
on the MAC address, then he can add entires in /etc/hosts to let him
use host names instead of IP addresses. If he says with dynamic IP
addresses, then he will need to get the zero config software working
correctly in order to use hostnames. What may be happening is that
the dhcp client is overwriting /etc/resolv.conf, so he is trying to
use the router's name server to look up local host names.
Mikkel
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