lets-eat-gary Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 Hi people, I have a home network of 2 machines, both have mandrake 9.1 and win 98 on. Both machines have a static address machine 1 : - 192.168.0.2 machine 2 : - 192.168.0.3 I can share files via samba, and via a nfs mount (mandrake control centre - set nfs mounts) but i am having the following problems (on both machines) - The lan browser on konquer doesn't see the other machines - in fact it sometimes crashes - is there a way to view a linux lan like network neightbourhood, i have linneighbour but that is only samba compatible - When setting the nfs mount the other machine's name is displayed as the ip addresss instead of the proper host name - is that to do with dhcp - also it might be causing my last problem - in multiplayer games, such as quake 3 , i cannot the other machine when browsing for servers . I actually have to put in the ip address to connect - what can i do to make my machines found? Cheers everybody :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 Question: Is either of the machines running a firewall of *ANY* kind? If so, remove it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lets-eat-gary Posted October 2, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 none of them have a firewall that is on. After messing about with the settings now one of the machines cannot see the other one at all The other one can see itself and the other. But - i can still play games if i specify a ip address . Any ideas ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxaq Posted October 8, 2003 Report Share Posted October 8, 2003 To resolve by name you will need to edit the /etc/hosts file... there is a difference between machine name in samba and resolveable name when pinging IPs. Big topic.... somebody here will no more than I do... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted October 9, 2003 Report Share Posted October 9, 2003 Hi, A DNS server can resolv the IP adresses. you may choose one of the pc as the server. If not already installed, install DrakWizard: MCC->RpmDrake. Then you can run MCC->Server Config (or something like that: I'm translating) -> DNS Wizard. I've never tested it as DrakGw already installed a DNS server (bind) for me. hope this help roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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