On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, Charles wrote: > I do not know how to find this data, Rich. I do know the diff between > static & dynamic ip-addresses; & i presume you mean dynamic when you > reference "DHCP"; but i do not know how to confirm which method is being > used on my system.
Somewhere, the ubuntus store information on network configuration. I don't use that distribution but on Slackware it's in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and looks like this: # Config information for eth0: IPADDR[0]="192.168.55.1" NETMASK[0]="255.255.255.0" USE_DHCP[0]="" DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]="" with equivalent sections for each network interface, including wlan0. >> What is in /etc/hosts? > > from cli, when i go there, i see: > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236 Oct 9 12:50 hosts That's what you get with 'ls -la'; try 'less /etc/hosts' to see the contents of that file. It will tell you what hosts are recognized on the network. > Perhaps. it is connected by ethernet. Then it may well be on a separate sub-net from the wireless laptops. That's an issue that I've not resolved in my network. Here, all ethernet-connected hosts have static IP addresses in the sub-net 192.168.55.0/24, but the WiFi access point is on sub-net 192.168.1.0/24. So, a wireless connection from a laptop cannot access the printers, any more than if that laptop was located at a coffee shop and connected through their WiFi access point to the 'Net and wanted to print to a LAN printer here. If there is a solution to this I'd be very interested in learning how to communicate across sub-nets. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
