connecting to a LAN

Ronnie T Livingston rlivings at hawaii.edu
Tue Sep 11 09:17:58 PDT 2001


initially i wanted to be able to have file sharing and printer sharing but
getting samba to work seems to be a little difficult.  Now all i want to
do is connect the linux boxes to the LAN and be able to use them for load
balancing.

thanks,
Ronnie

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Warren Togami wrote:

> Do you know about ping?  Try reading about it in "man ping".
>
> You can see the current IP address of your Linux machines with "ifconfig".
> If you need to configure that you can change the settings in "setup" or
> "linuxconf".  Linuxconf wont be installed by default in Red Hat, so you'll
> need to install them from RPM packages.  They are on disc 2.
>
> Are you also talking about file transfers and printer sharing between the
> Linux and Windows machines?  Do you want to make the Linux machine into a
> Windows file server?  What do you plan on doing with Linux on this network?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ronnie" <rlivings at hawaii.edu>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 2:48 PM
> Subject: [luau] connecting to a LAN
>
>
> > hi, Im trying to connect my linux machine to a LAN (actually i dont know
> > if it is already connected or not) the LAN is made up of a lot of windows
> > machines and eventually i want to have it so two (or more) linux machines
> > will be connected together via the LAN for clustering purposes.   How do i
> > know if im connected to the LAN and how do i go about finding the other
> > machine?
> >
> > thanks,
> > Ronnie
>
>
>
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