On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 19:12, craig-fcp wrote: > settings via the gnome gui > lastest updates to fc3 installed > > I'm having a lot of trouble getting anything with the Samba installation to > work. During the course of trying various setting I'm not clear on how the > static vs the automatically obtained DHCP is setting in the menus offered > is fulfilled. > > Selecting: > System Tools - Newwork Device Control - Network Configuration (menu) - > Edit; selects the current hardware checked unit selected under the Device > tab and a window menu Ethernet Device with 3 tabs General, Route, Hardware > Device Under the General tab: > One has the choice of selecting either > ( ) Automatically obtained IP address setting [dhcp] > or > ( ) Statically set IP address > Suppose I want to set it to the Static setting > I complete the following fields with the appropriate address > Address: 192.168.1.101 (which is available from my linksys router > Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 > Default gateway: 192.168.1.1 > > Then I select the Route tab > What's this for? It seems to be asking for the same information. I've > completed this with the same info I made for static on the General Tab - > Static setting. With or without this field setting on the Route tab page > doesn't seem to make any difference in the performance as far as I can > tell. > > What's the Route tab info needed for and what info should I be using? > > > -- > This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org It would be unusual for you to need to play with the route tab if you are a normal home user. Its used for defining rules for accessing a network segment that is not normally accessible via your local hub. In other words, if you have two separate subnets hanging off a central router, you might need a route definition to tell one subnet how to get to the other. In your case, just leave if blank. The only information you haven't mentioned that you will need is the addresses of an accessible Domain Name Server (DNS). You can normally find the addresses of your ISP's DNS servers from their web pages. Enter those on the DNS tab of the Network applet. If you have other computers on the LAN with statically assigned IP addresses, enter their IPs together with an alias on the Hosts tab to allow you to access them using just the alias. -- Tony Dietrich ------------- You own a dog, but you can only feed a cat.
