Thanks to everyone who replied. On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 00:13, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 10:05, Jamie Cadorette wrote: > > >> I'm' not a network expert, and others will probably > > correct me if I am wrong, but I think it is unusual or > > even plain wrong to have an IP address (inet addr) > > ending in .0. The last number should be between 1 and > > 254. Did you set this yourself, or was it allocated > > by DHCP? << > > Yes, I did select this number for myself. After reading about IP addresses and netmasks, I realised that the series of numbers we were using on windows was incorrect. Eg public IP addresses. So we changed them but we can change them again. > > This is correct. With an IP address, a hostid of all > > zeroes (ending in .0) and a hostid of all ones (ending > > in .255) are both reserved. A valid IP should end with > > a number from 1 through 254. It has been my experience > > that the number 1 is usually seen on DNS servers and > > routers. > > > > - Jamie > > It all depends on the subnet mask which defines what portion of the IP > address represents the network and what portion represents the host > addresses. If your network uses a 16 bit subnet mask there can be > several host address that end in 0 and 255. > > Very strange looking but perfectly valid. However I'd rather be sure. So I'll change it. > > > In the case described above they have a 24 bit subnet mask, in that case > you are correct the address ending in 0 is the network and 255 is the > broadcast. > > Also, after reinstalling FC1 (yet) again, I did notice some more information and another gui for configuring samba. I used Gnome this time and the network configuration guis seem easier to find. But I think I didn't have this last time at all. (I certainly searched the KDE desktop desperately for something like this. So maybe I have been more successful. I will let you know as soon as can. I will do the commands again though and send them on. Shelagh > -- > Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx> >
