Jim McCloskey wrote: > |> o printing to one of the machines running CUPS ... again, I must > |> specify the addr of the print server machine > > This was why I wanted to assign a fixed address to my desktop machine at > home--- > it has a printer on the parallel port and it serves as printserver for all > of > the other machines that use the home network (laptops mostly). > > But this very simple solution works here. I just have in > /etc/network/interfaces: > > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.1.100 > network 192.168.1.0 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > broadcast 192.168.1.255 > gateway 192.168.1.1 > > and the DHCP server in the Linksys router (a Wireless-B) is happy to always > assign > the 192.168.1.100 address to the machine in question.
No, DHCP is doing nothing in this. You have given your machine a fixed IP address in your LAN and it works perfectly. Here is what I did to give a machine (laptop) a fixed DHCP address: In the machine which acts as a router and DHCP server, I have this para in /etc/dhcpd.conf for my laptop: #added by HS,08May2005, to assign fixed address to the Dell laptop. #info from http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/dchp.htm host red { hardware ethernet XY:AB:CD:EF:GH:IJ; fixed-address 192.168.0.120; } Where XY:AB:CD:EF:GH:IJ is the mac address of the interface card of the laptop and 192.168.0.120 is the IP address I want DHCP server to assign to the laptop and "red" is the hostname given to the laptop. The hostname is in combination with this line in the dhcpd.conf file: option domain-name "myhome.domain"; which makes red.myhome.domain the complete domain name of the laptop. IIRC, I used this method so that the laptop may be configured to always look for an address from a DHCP server whether it was at my school or at home or anywhere else where a DHCP server was running. Having a fixed IP address was not working in that scenario then. Now, I guess, there are other more modern methods to make a laptop perfectly mobile in Linux. Let me know if you have any more questions. ->HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
