Thanks to everyone who replied.
On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 00:13, Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 10:05, Jamie Cadorette wrote:
> >> I'm' not a network expert, and others will probably
> correct me if I am wrong, but I think it is unusual or
> even plain wrong to have an IP address (inet addr)
> ending in .0. The last number should be between 1 and
> 254. Did you set this yourself, or was it allocated
> by DHCP? <<
>
Yes, I did select this number for myself. After reading about IP
addresses and netmasks, I realised that the series of numbers we were
using on windows was incorrect. Eg public IP addresses. So we changed
them but we can change them again.
> This is correct. With an IP address, a hostid of all
> zeroes (ending in .0) and a hostid of all ones (ending
> in .255) are both reserved. A valid IP should end with
> a number from 1 through 254. It has been my experience
> that the number 1 is usually seen on DNS servers and
> routers.
>
> - Jamie
It all depends on the subnet mask which defines what portion of the IP
address represents the network and what portion represents the host
addresses. If your network uses a 16 bit subnet mask there can be
several host address that end in 0 and 255.
Very strange looking but perfectly valid.
However I'd rather be sure. So I'll change it.
In the case described above they have a 24 bit subnet mask, in that case
you are correct the address ending in 0 is the network and 255 is the
broadcast.
Also, after reinstalling FC1 (yet) again, I did notice some more information and another
gui for configuring samba.
I used Gnome this time and the network configuration guis seem easier to
find. But I think I didn't have this last time at all. (I certainly
searched the KDE desktop desperately for something like this. So maybe I
have been more successful. I will let you know as soon as can. I will do
the commands again though and send them on.
Shelagh
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Scot L. Harris <webid(a)cfl.rr.com>