From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 14 16:13:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04655 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 16:13:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chipweb.ml.org (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA04642 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 16:13:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 12104 invoked by uid 666); 14 May 1998 23:13:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO speedy.chipweb.ml.org) (172.16.1.1) by 172.16.1.5 with SMTP; 14 May 1998 23:13:23 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980514161319.034bfad8@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com> X-Sender: ludwigp@mail.plstn1.sfba.home.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 16:13:19 -0700 To: Stephane Raimbault , "Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson" From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Problems accessing FBSD from LAN. Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <19980514130816.55592@the.oneinsane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 02:14 PM 5/14/98 +0000, Stephane Raimbault wrote: >I have a 'hosts' file on my win98 box, it goes a little something like >this: > >--snip:hosts:begin-- >192.168.0.1 freud >192.168.0.2 einstein >--snip:hosts:end-- >Still the same thing. > >However I do NOT have this on my FBSD box, could that be the problem? >If so how do you go about creating a 'hosts' file for FBSD. I assume it >is the same thing as above but in the /etc/hosts location as apose to >c:\windows\hosts That would be the problem. login as root and "ee /etc/hosts" Copy the lines over from your Win98 box. --Ludwig Pummer ludwigp@bigfoot.com ludwigp@chipweb.ml.org ICQ UIN: 692441 http://chipweb.home.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message