Verner wrote > fire up Konqueror and in the url line type: > fish://IP-of-that-other-machine-on-your-local-net.
Both machines have the same IP 127.0.0.2 according to /etc/hosts The HOSTNAMEs are different, rwb.site and fam.site fish://127.0.0.2 gives my own machine rwb.site fish://fam.site gives error, cannot connect James wrote > Any 127.x.x.x is your local computer. It is not another computer > across the network. There has to be some other address. A lot of > people running behind firewalls use 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x. If > you're connected to the internet, there has to be some other address > used, beyond 127.0.0.2. Kenneth wrote > Use ip a to see what address your eth interface is using. rwb:~> ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,10000> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue ...... 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOTRAILERS,UP,10000> mtu 1500 qdisc ...... inet 192.168.1.65/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 ...... fam:~> ip a ...... inet 192.168.1.64/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 with 64 instead of 65. rwb:~> ping 192.168.1.64 sends and receives packets fish://192.168.1.64 works !!! but only after tearing down the firewall fam:~> SuSEfirewall2 stop Robert -- http://rwbest.no.sapo.pt/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
