This one time, at band camp, Rhodri said: > thanks for your help > > yes, my laptop is already registered as a machine in work's LAN. So, the > problem for me was whether I had to investigate the nfs method or the samba > one. > > just another question: do I need to have installed dhcp for this task? > > cheers.
Again, investigate the Redhat machine - look in /etc/network/interfaces
(or wherever Redhat keeps such things - I've only ever used Redhat once,
so I couldn't tell you) to see if that machine is connecting via DHCP.
If it does, the easiest solution for a laptop is pump - you don't need
to have it going all the time, but it initiates dhcp when you want it.
dhcp-client is, IMHO, a better client, but it's run from /etc/init.d/,
which you don't always want when switching network environments. If it
has a static IP, just copy over the information, or use the IP given to
the laptop when booted into Windows.
HTH,
Steve
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Our ISP is having {switching,routing,SMDS,frame relay} problems
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