2006-03-11 at 21:54 +0000, Martin John Collins wrote:
Ahh I missed the bit about DHCP.
You have a few choices here....Let one of your computers issue DHCP and also run DNS populated from the DHCP leases granted (not always fun to get working)
or
Leave DHCP running on the router, but configure the router to have a gap in the address pool then you set a fixed address for the "server" machine (remembering to set up the default gateway and DNS addresses as your router)...Then go with the suggestions in my previous message (that's pretty much how I run at home)
or
Configure the server machine's Samba to be the wins server, look in the smb.conf file under [global] and the other machines to be wins clients (giving them the ip address of the wins server)
I don't know what route to go. I've read a little about internet printing protocol and configuring cups but that only covers the printing. Samba seems to address both but my first initial attempts have failed. I set up the workgroup COLLINS-NET through the SAMBA SERVER module in YAST which also opens up a firewall port on the server. I then configure the SAMBA CLIENT through YAST on the laptop and after entering the username and password it seems to connect (this is only after I shut down the laptop firewall manually
- God knows what port the SAMBA CLIENT needs open!). However when I try to
browse the network through konqueror "smb://collins-net/" I get the error "could not connect to host for smb://collins-net/".
collins-net is a workgroup...this only matters for browsing a whole network, if you are trying to connect to a specific machine your UNC path should be smb://hostname/(optional share name) not smb://workgroup/
Samba should take it's hostname from the system hostname.