Re: My two boxes will not talk to each other
On 1/16/07, Ken Heard <ken@heard.name> wrote:
I have a P4 desktop, on which is Sarge installed, host name SOL; and a
P2 laptop (Toshiba Tecra 8000), host name LAP, on which yesterday I
successfully installed Etch RC1. Both can communicate with the outside
world through a gateway and both can communicate with the printer
through the print server. I cannot however get them to communicate with
each other.
I am trying to use the host names to identify each box to the other. I
set SOL up as the server, but when I start nfs-kernel-server, it
returns: "exportfs: LAP has no inet address." LAP is the client, but
when I try to mount on it the directory I want to export from SOL, the
mount command returns "mount: can't get address for SOL."
I assume that neither computer can resolve the host name of the other.
Give each a fixed address (i.e. don't have them get it through DHCP) and then put both in each /etc/hosts file. Eg:
192.168.1.10 SOL
192.168.1.11 LAP
I think that should do it. It works for me anyway!
Patrick
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