Installation for a Newbie

[Steve Litt]

At 11:48 AM 02/17/2000 +1100, you wrote:
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>I'm running RedHat 6.1 and I loaded Samba as a package. I am using DHCP but 
>I can change that. Someone else's post suggested that might be a bad 
>thing... I'd prefer to figure out how to make DHCP work since I'm going to 
>be installing Linux on my laptop and that will be moving from one domain at 
>home to the domain at work (identical structure to the domains in both
domains)

>From a troubleshooting standpoint, it's much easier to test the other
poster's hypothesis and temporarily hardcode IP addresses. See if the
symptom changes. If not, go back to DHCP. If so, exploit the differences
until you find the root cause, then fix the root cause so you can use DHCP.
Either way you win.

Steve Litt