Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 10:06:05AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 28/04/2025 20:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 01:12:17PM +, > > mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > > On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > > At some point, it'd been in

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread Max Nikulin
On 28/04/2025 20:31, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 01:12:17PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: At some point, it'd been interesting whether yours were IPv4 zeroconf "link-local" addresses, i.e. in the 169.254.0.

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 10:32:26AM -0400, Lee wrote: [...] > > - is trying to resolve via mDNS > > How do we know that? Has the OP sent you a private message showing > the mdns requests going out to the network? > If no then I would say we don't know if their machine is trying to do > mdns or

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread Lee
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM tomas wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 11:36:17PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:28:48PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM wrote: > > [...] > > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > > > Not particularly. > > > > > > Try

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 01:12:17PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de > wrote: > > > > > > > That was my guess. By now I think it is irrelevant, since we > > advanced to the mDNS issue. At some point, it'd been interesting > > whether y

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That was my guess. By now I think it is irrelevant, since we > advanced to the mDNS issue. At some point, it'd been interesting > whether yours were IPv4 zeroconf "link-local" addresses, i.e. > in the 169.254.0.0/16 range: I'd bet they are :

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 12:40:54PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > While it is a good idea to have tshark, we already know that > > the OP's machine > > > > - is trying to resolve via mDNS > > - that part is failing.

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
On Monday, April 28th, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > While it is a good idea to have tshark, we already know that > the OP's machine > > - is trying to resolve via mDNS > - that part is failing. Yeah, Thanks for understanding. There are couple of connection like 0.0.0.0:mdns and [::]:mdns that I

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
On Monday, April 28th, Anssi Saari - anssi.sa...@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi wrote: > > Do you have a firewall in any computer? mdns uses UDP port 5353 and that > would need to be allowed for it to work. Yes, I have enabled firewall on both systems. But So was in the previous system, and mDNS us

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread Anssi Saari
mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com writes: > Hi all, > > I recently installed Debian on my old desktop, before this it was > running Ubuntu. So my issue is before installing debian I was able to > ping me other machine using ```ping hostname.local```, but after > installing debian 12 I am not abl

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 11:36:17PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:28:48PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM wrote: [...] > > > Hope that helps. > > > > Not particularly. > > > > Try this: > > > > sudo apt install tshark > > sudo tshark -f 'port 53

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:28:48PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Here are the output of the cmnds that tomas suggested. > > ... with all the good stuff elided Sad, but True > > Hope that helps. > > Not particularly. > > Try this: > > sudo a

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Lee
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM wrote: > > Hi, > > Here are the output of the cmnds that tomas suggested. ... with all the good stuff elided > Hope that helps. Not particularly. Try this: sudo apt install tshark sudo tshark -f 'port 5353' -c 4 -N dnt & ping -c 4 whatever.local At least for

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
On Monday, April 28th, Timothy M Butterworth timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com wrote: > Are you able to ping by IP address instead of host name? Yes, I am able to ping other machines in LAN through IPs. > Are you able to resolve the DNS name with dig? dig hostname.local NO, QU

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently installed Debian on my old desktop, before this it was running > Ubuntu. So my issue is before installing debian I was able to ping me other > machine using ```ping hostname.local```, but after installing debian 12 I > am not able t

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 04:56:26PM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > Hi, > > Here are the output of the cmnds that tomas suggested. Thanks for those. Another one which might be of interest (I suggest you don't obfuscate the IP addresses; otherwise it's on you to interpret them)

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Marco Moock
On 27.04.2025 16:30 Uhr mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > No, [hostname].local is not in /etc/hosts, So does in ubuntu machine. > As far as I know avahi should be resolving these. This is the case. Resolve should be done via mdns, which is handled by Avahi. Please use wireshark and sni

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Marco Moock
On 27.04.2025 16:30 Uhr Andy Smith wrote: > Okay so I see why OP was saying so much about mdns and avahi. The > .local hostnames are meant to be autodiscovered, not present in hosts > file or DNS as such, and that's what the mdns4_minimal is for in > /etc/nsswitch.conf. mdns4 limits that to IPv4,

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
Hi, Here are the output of the cmnds that tomas suggested. user@localhost:~$ip addr show 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forev

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Joe
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:47:19 +0200 wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 09:30:43AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:57:55 + > > mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > > > > Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is > > > output I get when I pin

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 09:30:43AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:57:55 + > mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > > Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is output I > > get when I ping other machine: > > > > ping: [hostname].local: Name or

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:57:55 + mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is output I > get when I ping other machine: > > ping: [hostname].local: Name or service not known. where [hostname] > is a placeholder. No, no. Please show u

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 10:09:34AM -0400, Eben King wrote: > On 4/27/25 09:57, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > ping: [hostname].local: Name or service not known. where [hostname] is a > > placeholder. > > Is [hostname].local in /etc/hosts or otherwise findable by DNS? Okay so

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Eben King
On 4/27/25 09:57, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: Hi, Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is output I get when I ping other machine: ping: [hostname].local: Name or service not known. where [hostname] is a placeholder. Is [hostname].local in /etc/hosts or

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
Hi, Sorry I didn't mentioned output in my previous mail. This is output I get when I ping other machine: ping: [hostname].local: Name or service not known. where [hostname] is a placeholder. Thanks. On Sunday, Andy Smith - a...@strugglers.net wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 11:24:2

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
Hi, No, [hostname].local is not in /etc/hosts, So does in ubuntu machine. As far as I know avahi should be resolving these. Thanks On Sunday, April 27th, Eben King - e...@gmx.us wrote: > > On 4/27/25 09:57, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry I didn't ment

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 11:24:25AM +, mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com wrote: > my issue is before installing debian I was able to ping me other > machine using ```ping hostname.local```, but after installing debian > 12 I am not able to do that. Nowhere in your email have you shown t

Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-27 Thread mailinglists . accustom994
Hi all, I recently installed Debian on my old desktop, before this it was running Ubuntu. So my issue is before installing debian I was able to ping me other machine using ```ping hostname.local```, but after installing debian 12 I am not able to do that. I am not expert in computer so kindly h

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 21/08/2024 03:42, Gary Dale wrote: $ systemctl status tigervncserver@:1.service ○ tigervncserver@:1.service - Remote desktop service (VNC) Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tigervncserver@.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2024-08-20 15:52:

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-08-20 16:42, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-08-20 15:41, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 15:28:40 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Look, I know the executable is vncserver. The question is how do I get the service to specify parameters when starting the service? I can start is from the c

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-08-20 15:41, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 15:28:40 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Look, I know the executable is vncserver. The question is how do I get the service to specify parameters when starting the service? I can start is from the command line as "vncserver -localhost no"

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 15:28:40 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > Look, I know the executable is vncserver. The question is how do I get the > service to specify parameters when starting the service? I can start is from > the command line as "vncserver -localhost no" but then I'd have to use cron > to set

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-08-20 15:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 15:04:11 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-08-19 22:27, Max Nikulin wrote: On 20/08/2024 05:15, Gary Dale wrote: tigervnc-server has a command line option to listen to the LAN but the Debian systemd service configuration doesn&#

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 15:04:11 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2024-08-19 22:27, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 20/08/2024 05:15, Gary Dale wrote: > > > tigervnc-server has a command line option to listen to the LAN but > > > the Debian systemd service configuratio

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-08-19 22:27, Max Nikulin wrote: On 20/08/2024 05:15, Gary Dale wrote: tigervnc-server has a command line option to listen to the LAN but the Debian systemd service configuration doesn't invoke the server program directly, so I'm not sure how to get the option to the v

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-19 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/08/2024 05:15, Gary Dale wrote: tigervnc-server has a command line option to listen to the LAN but the Debian systemd service configuration doesn't invoke the server program directly, so I'm not sure how to get the option to the vnc server. [...]> This is the

configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

2024-08-19 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on and AMD64 system. I have a need to be able to connect remotely to this machine. My network already is setup for ssh from the outside to go to my main server. From there I would normally use -L port forwarding to connect to a computer on the LAN. However, tig

Re: can't connect to server from outside LAN

2024-06-13 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 6/13/2024 10:26, Darac Marjal wrote: On 12/06/2024 23:54, Greg Marks wrote: The problem began a couple weeks ago; previously (and for many years) I had been able to ssh to my server without issue.  The first time it failed, I was using free wireless at an airport; I was able to ssh to my s

Re: can't connect to server from outside LAN

2024-06-13 Thread Darac Marjal
On 12/06/2024 23:54, Greg Marks wrote: I'm running a Debian server from my home with a static IP address, with ssh configured to use key-based authentication rather than password-based. As of a couple weeks ago, I have been unable to ssh to my server from external locations. When I ssh from a

Re: can't connect to server from outside LAN

2024-06-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 10:33 PM Greg Marks wrote: > > I'm running a Debian server from my home with a static IP address, > with ssh configured to use key-based authentication rather than > password-based. As of a couple weeks ago, I have been unable to ssh to > my server from external locations.

Re: can't connect to server from outside LAN

2024-06-12 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024, Greg Marks wrote: I'm running a Debian server from my home with a static IP address, with ssh configured to use key-based authentication rather than password-based. As of a couple weeks ago, I have been unable to ssh to my server from external locations. When I ssh from a

Re: can't connect to server from outside LAN

2024-06-12 Thread David Christensen
On 6/12/24 15:54, Greg Marks wrote: I'm running a Debian server from my home with a static IP address, with ssh configured to use key-based authentication rather than password-based. As of a couple weeks ago, I have been unable to ssh to my server from external locations. When I ssh from a lapt

can't connect to server from outside LAN

2024-06-12 Thread Greg Marks
I'm running a Debian server from my home with a static IP address, with ssh configured to use key-based authentication rather than password-based. As of a couple weeks ago, I have been unable to ssh to my server from external locations. When I ssh from a laptop connected to the wireless network o

Re: Help to report a bug related to a usb3 lan adapter driver

2024-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:57:00 +0200 user7415 same wrote: > I had a discussion in stack exchange related to the problem that is > well explained here: > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/774594/debian-12-all-of-sudden-my-usb3-lan-adapter-get-assigned-random-mac-address-ea >

Help to report a bug related to a usb3 lan adapter driver

2024-04-15 Thread user7415 same
Hello, I'm not very skilled in what concerns to kernel patching and compiling. I had a discussion in stack exchange related to the problem that is well explained here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/774594/debian-12-all-of-sudden-my-usb3-lan-adapter-get-assigned-random-mac-addre

local (lan) mirror - release not supported error

2023-11-06 Thread Russell L. Harris
For several years I have been running approx on a machine in the lan, using it to install and update Debian for myself and friends. I have installed several releases, the last being release 12.2 on this machine. Because approx "just runs" trouble-free, I have forgotten the deta

Re: Using a USB printer connected to one computer from another computer on a LAN

2022-09-22 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, September 22, 2022 03:52:39 PM Curt wrote: > I don't believe I did anything else to get it to work. Thanks to Curt and Gene -- that works fine!

Re: Using a USB printer connected to one computer from another computer on a LAN

2022-09-22 Thread gene heskett
On 9/22/22 12:42, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I recently installed a new to me Brother HL-2140 printer on one of the computers on my LAN. It has a USB interface. I used the Brother installer to install it on that computer, and, after a few false starts, seems to be working fine. I now want to

Re: Using a USB printer connected to one computer from another computer on a LAN

2022-09-22 Thread Curt
On 2022-09-22, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > To repeat, the printer is a USB printer, with the Brother driver installed on > one computer. I am / was hoping that I could install the Brother driver on > another computer (on my LAN) using one of the network options (see the list

Using a USB printer connected to one computer from another computer on a LAN

2022-09-22 Thread rhkramer
I recently installed a new to me Brother HL-2140 printer on one of the computers on my LAN. It has a USB interface. I used the Brother installer to install it on that computer, and, after a few false starts, seems to be working fine. I now want to try to also install the printer on another

Re: ssh certificate authentication: can one user and one server certificate work for any number of users or servers on a LAN?

2022-07-19 Thread Dan Ritter
and use that for any number of users and servers on a LAN. Doing so is a lot like telling all the users that their password is now "swordfish". You could do that, but it defeats common sense. Here's what's going on: * You (root on many systems) create a certificate authority.

ssh certificate authentication: can one user and one server certificate work for any number of users or servers on a LAN?

2022-07-19 Thread rhkramer
I am (still) rather confused about using ssh certificate authentication. I am confused about a variety of specifics, but the biggie is this: I have the idea that I can create one user certificate and one server (host) certificate, and use that for any number of users and servers on a LAN. from

Re: Issue using expo and expo go on the lan

2021-05-06 Thread john doe
On 5/6/2021 5:35 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: john doe wrote: I'm required to use 'expo' as a server and to use the 'expo go' app on a android device to create apps On Bullseye, I have installed 'nodejs' and 'npm' 'expo-cli' using 'npm'. I have created an new app with 'expo init myapp' then I do: $ c

Re: Issue using expo and expo go on the lan

2021-05-06 Thread Dan Ritter
john doe wrote: > I'm required to use 'expo' as a server and to use the 'expo go' app on a > android device to create apps > > On Bullseye, I have installed 'nodejs' and 'npm' 'expo-cli' using 'npm'. > > I have created an new app with 'expo init myapp' then I do: > $ cd myapp > $ expo start > Th

Issue using expo and expo go on the lan

2021-05-06 Thread john doe
Debians, I'm required to use 'expo' as a server and to use the 'expo go' app on a android device to create apps On Bullseye, I have installed 'nodejs' and 'npm' 'expo-cli' using 'npm'. I have created an new app with 'expo init myapp' then I do: $ cd myapp $ expo start This starts the "server" a

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-04-01 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 19:29:49 +0100, Brian wrote: > Personally, I see the idea of an ad-hoc network as interesting, but > haven't the incentive to set one up. Not yet anyway! I successfully and eadily implemented the ifupdown method at https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/AdHoc Put it top of a readi

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-31 Thread Joe
On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 15:25:55 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > But going back to the OP's original scenario, a broken¹ router would > be an ideal solution for linking two wifi laptops, with no possibility > of accidentally joining the Internet (horrors!). > > ¹ Is this a common mode of failure? My

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Wed 31 Mar 2021 at 10:45:59 (-0400), Marc Auslander wrote: > Anssi Saari writes: > >Brian writes: > > > >> Now - could I use this non-internet-capable router as a switch? > > > >Probably. Usually LAN ports on

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-31 Thread Marc Auslander
Anssi Saari writes: >Brian writes: > ... >> >> Now - could I use this non-internet-capable router as a switch? > >Probably. Usually LAN ports on a router are setup as a switch. The >router may have a DHCP server running though which you may want to >disable. In my

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Brian writes: > Ten minutes after writing that I recollected I possess a non-working > router. It is the first I bought (> 100 GBP) and has not yet beem > re-cycled. > > My network also hasn't any spare LAN ports to connect to and some of > the devices have beem wirel

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 16:51:05 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > On 2021-03-24 15:34, Richard Owlett wrote: > > This is essentially a reading list request. > > I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". > > I have two laptops with clean installs

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Brian
n mind. Posts veering away from the caefully > phrased question could spark their interest and lead them towards a > solution to an issue Ten minutes after writing that I recollected I possess a non-working router. It is the first I bought (> 100 GBP) and has not yet beem re-cycled. My networ

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 11:19:48 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > What well meaning members of this list have not picked up on is that I am > very literal minded and careful in phrasing my questions. I've said > somewhere in this thread that my "universe of discourse" is explicitly > limited to

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:28:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/30/2021 10:28 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Richard, > > > > So: You have two laptops. Both installed from the first DVD. Never connected > > to the Internet. > > > > Did you actually manage to install the firmware to make

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread mick crane
On 2021-03-30 17:28, IL Ka wrote: You might need a x-over RJ45 cable to connect the 2 together. There is a technology called "Auto MDI-X". With it NIC can detect cable type hence it can support both cross-cord and patch-cord. This technology is optional for 10Mb and 100Mb (although widely i

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread IL Ka
> > > You might need a x-over RJ45 cable to connect the 2 together. > There is a technology called "Auto MDI-X". With it NIC can detect cable type hence it can support both cross-cord and patch-cord. This technology is optional for 10Mb and 100Mb (although widely implemented in 100). For 1000Mb cr

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/30/2021 10:28 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Richard, So: You have two laptops. Both installed from the first DVD. Never connected to the Internet. Did you actually manage to install the firmware to make the WiFi cards work? Yes ;> One was old enough that the installer had the correct dri

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Richard Owlett
on your two machines, it may well "just work" in assigning addresses, allwoing for communication between machines. That would involve taking the cover off, removing the battery, then the SIM, refitting the battery and back cover. That's assuming it still provides a LAN service wh

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread mick crane
On 2021-03-24 15:34, Richard Owlett wrote: This is essentially a reading list request. I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation server software was installed on *ONE* of them. Communicati

Re: Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Richard, So: You have two laptops. Both installed from the first DVD. Never connected to the Internet. Did you actually manage to install the firmware to make the WiFi cards work? Outwith that firmware, it is very unlikely that anything will work. [And this goes back to one of the previous email

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread David Wright
it may well "just work" > in assigning addresses, allwoing for communication between machines. That would involve taking the cover off, removing the battery, then the SIM, refitting the battery and back cover. That's assuming it still provides a LAN service when disconnected from its

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 06:51:32PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 25 mar 21, 05:15:46, songbird wrote: > > > > for my own needs i just use a crossover cable and skip > > WiFi entirely - probably because in more ancient times > > i've done connections between machines via null modem > >

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 25 mar 21, 05:15:46, songbird wrote: > > for my own needs i just use a crossover cable and skip > WiFi entirely - probably because in more ancient times > i've done connections between machines via null modem > serial port cables. With newer hardware (Gigabit as well as some 100Mbit n

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread David Wright
already made my suggestion of a cheap router—back in August 2019. I think Dan's suggestion was the best, though: "However, you have a history of trying to avoid the good decisions that people steer you towards, so I encourage you to give Bluetooth a miss entirely and go for a

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/25/2021 07:35 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2021-03-25 05:56 (UTC-0500): In my original post I asked: What internet search terms will lead to productive results? A private reply suggested: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=home%20lan%20setup%20wireless Though

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/25/2021 07:09 AM, IL Ka wrote: > I have no router and the installer never prompted for an IP address. Two wireless stations could be connected using Ad-Hoc mode (so called iBSS) or using Access Point (BSS mode). If you do not have access point, you can try to configure Ad-Hoc: https://w

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/25/2021 04:15 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: This is essentially a reading list request. I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation server software was installed on *ON

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2021-03-25 05:56 (UTC-0500): > In my original post I asked: >> What internet search terms will lead to productive results? > A private reply suggested: > https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=home%20lan%20setup%20wireless > Though the resulting links are primarily Window

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread IL Ka
> I have no router and the installer never prompted for an IP address. Two wireless stations could be connected using Ad-Hoc mode (so called iBSS) or using Access Point (BSS mode). If you do not have access point, you can try to configure Ad-Hoc: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/AdHoc WiFi is a compl

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/25/2021 06:37 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 05:56:02AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/24/2021 07:43 PM, IL Ka wrote: learning by doing Theory and practice are both important. It is crucial to understand how IP networks work, so I'd start with book like "TCP/

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 05:56:02AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/24/2021 07:43 PM, IL Ka wrote: > >> learning by doing > > > >Theory and practice are both important. It is crucial to > >understand how IP networks work, so I'd start with book > >like "TCP/IP Network Administration" > > Tha

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/24/2021 07:43 PM, IL Ka wrote: learning by doing Theory and practice are both important. It is crucial to understand how IP networks work, so I'd start with book like "TCP/IP Network Administration" That book is not available at the local library but some chapters are on the inter

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > This is essentially a reading list request. > I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". > I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation > server software was installed on *ONE* of them. Communicati

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread IL Ka
> > learning by doing Theory and practice are both important. It is crucial to understand how IP networks work, so I'd start with book like "TCP/IP Network Administration" > During installation > server software was installed on *ONE* of them. Communication will be > via WiFi. Did they get IP

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread David Wright
w N600 dual band router can be had for $30 at Walmart. > > > > I don't know how easy it is to initially configure it without > > > > an ethernet connection to one of the LAN ports, but that problem > > > > can be considered solved by the quotation above (fr

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z
art. > > > I don't know how easy it is to initially configure it without > > > an ethernet connection to one of the LAN ports, but that problem > > > can be considered solved by the quotation above (from a couple > > > of years back). > > > > For th

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Brian
On Wed 24 Mar 2021 at 20:20:59 +, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:08:43 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > > > > > A new N600 dual band router can be had for $30 at Walmart. > > I don't know how easy it is to initially configure it without > >

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Joe
On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 15:08:43 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > A new N600 dual band router can be had for $30 at Walmart. > I don't know how easy it is to initially configure it without > an ethernet connection to one of the LAN ports, but that problem > can be considered sol

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread David Wright
d Owlett wrote: > >>>> This is essentially a reading list request. > >>>> I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". > >>>> I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation > >>>>

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread basti
g list request. >>>> I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". >>>> I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation >>>> server >>>> software was installed on *ONE* of them. Communication will

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Brian
On Wed 24 Mar 2021 at 12:05:38 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/24/2021 11:37 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > This is essentially a reading list request. > > > I have never administered a LAN

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/24/2021 12:22 PM, Reco wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:15:34PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/24/2021 10:40 AM, Reco wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation server software was inst

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/24/2021 10:57 AM, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:34:53 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". You will. :-) I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation server software was in

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Reco
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:15:34PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/24/2021 10:40 AM, Reco wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation > > > server software was installed on *ONE* of them.

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/24/2021 10:40 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation server software was installed on *ONE* of them. Communication will be via WiFi. Any specific suggestions for rea

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/24/2021 11:37 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: This is essentially a reading list request. I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During in

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > This is essentially a reading list request. > I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". > I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation server > software was

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 10:34:53 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". You will. :-) > I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation > server software was installed on *ONE* of them. Communica

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation > server software was installed on *ONE* of them. Communication will be > via WiFi. Any specific suggestions for reading? hostapd, dhcpd, bind (name

Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Richard Owlett
This is essentially a reading list request. I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation server software was installed on *ONE* of them. Communication will be via WiFi. The MATE panel

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