On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 22:10, Donald E Haselwood wrote:
> Problem 1:
>
> With DHCP enabled, I can ping the Suse 9.1<->WN98, and Suse 9.1<->RH8 by
> address, but not by host name unless I manually go into the router, find
> the assigned IP address, then plug them into the hosts files. This OK
> except that at some time in the future I'll be doing something and the
> addresses will be different (and by then I'll forgotten, and spend time
> trying figure out what went wrong).
>
> If Suse 9.1 and RH8 are given fixed IPs, then I don't seem to get internet
> access.
> I tried putting access permission for the fixed IP in the router but
> that didn't work.
> Maybe this is a DNS issue, but if so, I haven't found the answer.
> Somewhere I read the that WRT54G has a multicast problem--don't know
> that is an issue here.
Look at your router configuration. It should show what IP address span
it is giving out in dhcp. ex 192.168.1.2 -> 192.168.1.31
Use static IP addresses for the Linux boxen that are outside of that
range. ex 192.168.1.100,192.168.1.101 etc.
Set your gateway on those machines to your router's address.
First try to set /etc/resolv.conf to show "nameserver 192.168.1.1"
without the quotes where the ip address is the address of the router.
Then "ping www.yahoo.com". If that doesn't work, change the ip after
nameserver to the ip address your isp uses for name resolution. If that
doesn't work try "ping 24.73.203.10". If that doesn't work, post
another message to the list on this issue alone. This has to be working
properly before moving to the next step.
I have yet to find a cable modem type of router ie the one you are using
that is set by default to block any ip addresses outside of that given
out by dhcp. Although possible to do, I've never seen it set that way
by default.
If those tests are successful, then you need to do one of two things.
You can either read up on dns to set up your own internal dns (not
recommended for the size of your small network), or you can simply
continue with your suggested solution of entries in the hosts files. I
think hosts file resolution is perfect for your network.
Now test to make sure you can ping each of your internal machines with
"ping computername". If any of them fail, post back letting us know
where it fails and only post about that issue. If they succeed you are
done with problem 1. Problem two relies on this to be working smoothly.
> I
> Problem 2:
>
> Samba
> I setup the Samba Client in Suse 9.1. When I do a browse Windows Network
> (with the other machine running WN98) it pops up a "Unknown error condition
> in stat: Network is unreachable" along with a msg to send in an error report...
>
Network is unreachable would fit if problem 1 wasn't solved. That being
said, I have found it difficult to get network browsing working on
various Distros. You may want to concentrate on getting the command
line mounting of a folder working first.
> NFS
> I setup the RH8 /etc/export with a directory, /mnt/, and do
> exportfs. exportfs shows the file has been exported with "<world>"
> indicating that there shouldn't be a permissions problem.
>
> When I go to the Suse 9.1 and setup NFS Client, and do a Browse for NFS
> servers, nothing shows up.
> Doing it manually with, mount 10.1.1.100:/mnt /mnt, ends with a time
> out. ping 10.1.1.100 works just fine.
>
On the machine that has the nfs share, make sure the nfs deamon is
running. Then make sure there is no firewall set up. To make sure it
is not... "/etc/init.d/iptables stop" should temporarily assure you that
the default firewall setup is not blocking you. Test after stopping the
firewall. You should be able to mount the folder being shared. If you
still cannot connect to it you should post again and include the
contents of your exports file and explain what you are getting.
>
> Any tips, suggestions, or soothing words would be appreciated.
>
>
Your posting touched on several problems that rely on one another's
successful setup in order to work. You should tackle the problems one
at a time until solved before going on to the next for it to work. If
problem 1 isn't solved, you'll never get problem 2 to work. (except for
maybe the 10.1.1.100:/mnt /mnt which could have worked if certain
conditions were met) Anyway, I wouldn't recommend working on 2 until 1
is done.
Sorry if I've "gone on" a bit. It is too early for this |-0
> Regards,
>
> Don
>
>
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