see my network in gnome

ykcorse · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 32

Hey, how are you? i have just installed gnome 2.6 in gentoo. Everything went fine, but when i go to network i dont see the computers in my network. I didnt have this problem when i installed gnome 2.6 in debian, and i dont know what the problem might be. Which is the file where i have to say my network name? what other files should i edit to see the computers on my network? do i have to install something? i can ping the other computers. thanks

curtis119 · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:50 pm Post subject:

in the file /etc/hosts add your machines ip with a fully quailifed domain name after the localhost line. Some people have reported that adding the machine name on the local host line was necessary and others have reported that replacing localhost with the FQDN was necessary. Try each of these options in order until yu find the one that works for you.

ykcorse · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 32

hey, thanks for replying so soon. I didnt understand a couple of things, i am learning english and gentoo...sorry. In /etc/hosts i have to add only my machine's ip or the ip of all my machines? I cant add the ips all of my machines because they get the ip by dhcp and it is not always the same one for each machine. If i have to add only my machine's ip like in the example you wrote... how?
my ip is 192.168.1.39
the machine's name is ykcorse-gentoo
the name of my network is Redcasa.

I have tried this /etc/hosts

1)
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.39 ykcorse-gentoo.Redcasa ykcorse-gentoo

2)
127.0.0.1 localhost ykcorse-gentoo
192.168.1.39 ykcorse-gentoo.Redcasa ykcorse-gentoo

3)
127.0.0.1 ykcorse-gentoo.Redcasa ykcorse-gentoo
192.168.1.39 ykcorse-gentoo.Redcasa ykcorse-gentoo

is anyone of them correct? none of them worked

curtis119 · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject:

try this, note that the spaces are all tabs.

ykcorse · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 32

this doesnt work neither. When i start gnome it complains because it says it doesnt find my hostname in /etc/hosts, so i have to add it too. Where do i have to write the name of my network? because this is the most important thing,no?

ykcorse · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 32

i finally fixed it, i had to do
USE="samba" emerge gnome-vfs
and now it works

curtis119 · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:32 pm Post subject:

I'm glad you figured it out. I couldn't think of anything else to try. I wonder, is the dhcp server on your network wondows based?
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Pluvius · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject:

This is in reply to curtis119.

I think you need to change your monicker. You have correctly listed your location in ever-increasing sizes, but there is nothing beyond the cosmos. The cosmos describes everything. There is nothing beyond the cosmos because the cosmos is all-encompassing.

Pluvius

curtis119 · Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:48 pm Post subject: