From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 11:23:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.uky.edu (smtp.uky.edu [128.163.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2D637BB6F for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:23:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gchil0@pop.uky.edu) Received: from pop.uky.edu (pop.uky.edu [128.163.2.16]) by smtp.uky.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11154; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:23:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from e2e1 (e2e1.pa.uky.edu [128.163.161.125]) by pop.uky.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03055; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:23:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000628141912.009516b0@pop.uky.edu> X-Sender: gchil0@pop.uky.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:21:33 -0400 To: Caleb Walker From: Greg Childers Subject: Re: FreeBSD and @home Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <395A3F49.6E6303A5@powercomenergy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Take a look at http://www.freebsddiary.org/athome.html. Hopefully that'll get you going. Greg At 11:09 AM 6/28/00 -0700, you wrote: >I am wondering if there are anyone out there that has FreeBSD connected >to a @home account. > >I am having problems getting my fbsd box to connect to the @home >network. I was finally able to get an address from the @home dhcp >address only after editing the dhclient.conf file to specify that I send >the DHCP server my hostname that @home gives me. I suppose this is the >method of making sure that only @home users are using @home. So I got >the address from the dhcp server but i can not go anywhere, I can not >ping anything accept myself. >I am wondering if there is something that needs to continually >broadcasted out that I am this user that they specify that I use. Or >maybe there is another problem that I am not seeing. > >I look at the manual and for M$ machines they put the host name in the >netbios namespace(identifaction tab of the network properties). I look >at the MAC config and put this name in the DHCP client id box. In mac >machines 8.1 and before they use a static address and put that host name >behind the domain name in a fqdn looking name space in the boxes >lableled Implicit Search Path:... In the starting domain name they put >that fqdn and in the ending domain name they leave blank, In the >additional search domains they enter that fqdn again. > >With all of this description, can anyone tell me what is going on here >or what I can do to resolve this problem with FreeBSD and @home? > >Thanks alot in advance, >Caleb Walker > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message