RE: Hostname help

2002-12-13 Thread James Francis
> -Original Message- > From: John Nall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 8:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Hostname help > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Tomas Larsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Hostname help

2002-12-13 Thread Jim Christiansen
There is a hosts file available in Windows, too. That may be an option... _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Hostname help

2002-12-13 Thread John Nall
- Original Message - From: "Tomas Larsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Can you ping the Linux box from Win with IP. > Make sure that you enter all hosts in LMHOSTS file in Win. A further query on this: There are two files, LMHOSTS.SAM and HOSTS, which appear to be similar. They are found in

Re: Hostname help

2002-12-13 Thread Ben Dugdale
Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 00:06, Ryan McDougall wrote: Alright guys I hate to bring this up again so soon but I have some more questions and issues I would greatly appreciate help with. This is what my /etc/sysconfig/network file says: NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=thalia.lan.home

RE: Hostname help

2002-12-13 Thread Ryan McDougall
--- Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > huh? > > what router? I just got a Netgear MR314 Cable/DSL router for an early X-mas gift. > who them? > most importantly, what are you trying to do that you can't do? > Communicate? I'm sure you can communicate...did you try ping? Your right I can

RE: Hostname help

2002-12-12 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 00:06, Ryan McDougall wrote: > Alright guys I hate to bring this up again so soon but I have some more > questions and issues I would greatly appreciate help with. This is what my > /etc/sysconfig/network file says: > NETWORKING=yes > HOSTNAME=thalia.lan.home > > my /etc/host

RE: Hostname help

2002-12-12 Thread Ryan McDougall
Alright guys I hate to bring this up again so soon but I have some more questions and issues I would greatly appreciate help with. This is what my /etc/sysconfig/network file says: NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=thalia.lan.home my /etc/hosts file contains the following: # Do not remove the following line

RE: Hostname help

2002-12-12 Thread Ryan McDougall
Yeah I have RoadRunner in NC and they dynamically assign me my hostname... Doesn't that suck? So I can't even *really* use that because it changes with the ip something like clt168-XXX.carolina.rr.com... Something like that anyway, oh well! Thank you guys for the help I'm gonna do the hostname stuf

RE: Hostname help

2002-12-12 Thread James Francis
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Schwendt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Hostname help > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:

Re: Hostname help

2002-12-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 11:01:43 -0800 (PST), Ryan McDougall wrote: > Thank you sosososososo much for replying... Like I said before please > excuse my stupidity on this one... But don't I need to own the domain > foo.com, or is it because I'm behind this

RE: Hostname help

2002-12-12 Thread Ryan McDougall
Thank you sosososososo much for replying... Like I said before please excuse my stupidity on this one... But don't I need to own the domain foo.com, or is it because I'm behind this router that it is safe to do whatever I want? TIA --- James Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simply edit /etc/s

RE: Hostname help

2002-12-12 Thread James Francis
> -Original Message- > From: Ryan McDougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:35 PM > To: RedHat 8.0 Psyche > Subject: Hostname help > > > Hello everyone, > > I know that this is a pretty basic issue and I may be making > too much of it, > but I was wond