Re: My two boxes will not talk to each other - now they do.

2007-01-20 Thread Ken Heard
Thanks to the three people who responded to my query on the subject, I was able to get my two boxes talking to each other. Both Patrick Wiseman and Douglas Allan Tutty suggested that I not use aliases for each box tied to a local domain name, which I had not properly configured in any event.

Re: My two boxes will not talk to each other - now they do.

2007-01-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:14:50 -0500 Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, even though the DHCP server is enabled, it appears that once the gateway -- or at least mine -- initially assigns an IP address to a computer at random it is never changed thereafter. This arrangement

My two boxes will not talk to each other

2007-01-16 Thread Ken Heard
I have a P4 desktop, on which is Sarge installed, host name SOL; and a P2 laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8000), host name LAP, on which yesterday I successfully installed Etch RC1. Both can communicate with the outside world through a gateway and both can communicate with the printer through the print

Re: My two boxes will not talk to each other

2007-01-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 1/16/07, Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a P4 desktop, on which is Sarge installed, host name SOL; and a P2 laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8000), host name LAP, on which yesterday I successfully installed Etch RC1. Both can communicate with the outside world through a gateway and both can

Re: My two boxes will not talk to each other

2007-01-16 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 06:09:18PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: I have a P4 desktop, on which is Sarge installed, host name SOL; and a P2 laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8000), host name LAP, on which yesterday I successfully installed Etch RC1. Both can communicate with the outside world through a