[wellylug] Samba & DHCP config ?

[Roger Young]

I'm confused :( Doesn't the router need to have control of the IP addresses
on the home network so that it can distribute the internet traffic correctly?

Before, when I had a dial-up modem I handled internet configuration through 
ppp config files, and the local LAN by running netconfig. Here I chose
"Static IP" and specified the local IP of the Linux box.

But now to connect from Linux to the router I needed to rerun netconfig, and 
this time there I chose the DHCP option. In that case there was no way of 
choosing a fixed IP number for the local Linux machine.

Are you saying it is possible to have 2 sets of IP numbers, one assigned
dynamically by the router, and a second static set?

Sorry, I'm probably missing something basic here...

Thanks anyway,
Roger
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:43:01 +1300
Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 22:29 +1300, Roger Young wrote:
> > Hello, I have just subscribed to a broadband service
> > (ihug) and have a router (so dynamic IP addressing) and
> > a small home network. How can I assign Samba shares when there are no fixed IP numbers? Can someone suggest
> > where I might find this information? When I used a dialup
> > modem there was no confusion because I had control of the IP numbers on the home network. But now with the router, not.
> 
> 
> not sure about samba with DHCP,
> 
> but you could quite easily change the router to a static IP address.
> 
> You can also have your network a mix of static and dynamic. Your router
> has an option to let you set when the DHCP ip addressing begins. Eg:
> 192.168.0.25. Therefore, IPs .0 - .24 will be free for static hosts to
> use.
> 
> This is what I do. It allows DHCP for anyone with wifi, but static IP's
> for all my wired machines.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>
> 
> 
> www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com
> 
> www.jethrocarr.jedolinux.com/index.php?page=cv/cv.php
> 
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