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.
Running cat /etc/hosts on SOL returns the following:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost SOL
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
Running the same command on LAP returns the following:
127.0.1.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 LAP.localhost LAP
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
Have I given enough information to indicate what is wrong? Can anybody
advise me what to do to put these two boxes on friendly terms with each
other?
Ken Heard
Toronto, Canada
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