Subject: Re: Networking ~ peer to peer
Date: Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 06:47:58AM +0000
In reply to:Walter Logeman
Quoting Walter Logeman([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Martin, John, all
>
> Naming my machine was easy, I called it psy. The domain name for
> the network was harder... as the other one is a win98 laptop,
> already networked to the windows disk in this machine... is there
> an existing domain name that widows uses? The "workgroup" name?
>
> I just made up another name.
>
> I have set it at psy.home.
Good choice
>
>
> IP address: as in the laptop: 192.168.0.2 ?
If you call the laptop, laptop.home then it will also be know as
192.168.0.2, therefore you should use 192.168.0.1 for psy.home.
If they were both the same IP (192.168.0.2) you would not be able to
network them.
> netmask: I used the default 255.255.255.0 ?
>
Good.
> Broadcast address: I took the first of the three options... I
> don't have them in front of me now.
192.168.0.255 would be OK
> Gateway: no
correct
>
> dns - set none
OK for now. You will want it in the future.
>
> Where is this leading me... I will now need to redo all this
> again later, comments and tips appreciated.
>
Looks OK to me.
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