On 1/16/07, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
