Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 03:44:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Dennis White <dennywhite@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: network setup on laptop Message-ID: <20010626104451.36962.qmail@web13906.mail.yahoo.com>
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When you setup your network with /stand/sysinstall, I've read that you shouldn't try to fake it and put in made up info like you can get by with doing in Linux, but should just leave it blank. On my linux box, it's listed under host as dennyboy & under domain as cableone.net, which is not really a domain but as I said, faking it. Freebsd won't allow me to leave it blank and continue with the setup though. I also just read in one of the install tutorials: Host The fully-qualified hostname, e.g. 486.weeble.com in this case. Domain The name of the domain that your machine is in, e.g. weeble.com Should I have put dennyboy.cableone.net in the host box and cableone.net in the domain box? If so, can someone please point me to the docs locale where I can read how to do this without going back to sysinstall? I can get on the Internet with the setup like it is, connected through a netgear hub & linksys router, but at very dismal speeds, even though I have a 10/100 linksys pcmcia lan card, and I think my setting all this up wrong is what has caused me not to be able to get samba to run right, which I need for sharing files with my win98 box, & not to be able to properly use telnet, ssh or ftp between my computers. The laptop is a toshiba satellite PII 266 running freebsd 4.3. Thanks for any help I can get on this. Please advise if I need to put more info in here. Tried to remember to list all info I thought would be needed & to read all the documentation I could get my hands on, both in my distro & on the internet, but I just can't seem find a mention of this particular problem. ===== dennywhite@yahoo.com ICQ# 759271 ============================================================ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. ============================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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