[Samba] home lan

[David Kuntadi]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Skip Guenter <sguenter at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>Yesterday I was VNCing into one of the crunchers and it wouldn't
> connect.  Ran a .bat file I have that pings all the machines and tells me if
> any don't respond that should.  Dang router (192.168.nnn.1) didn't
> respond... along with some of the other machines.  After rebooting cable
> modem, router, wireless AP - NO CHANGE.  For unrelated reasons I happened to
> crash my desktop (C17, the win XP box) a bit later... when it came back up
> all was fine and everybody on the network was again consistently pingable,
> sub 1ms.  I'm concluding it's something to do with C17 being the one and
> only 'computer browser list maintainer' on the network.  Maybe a bad
> conclusion but it still brings up that I think I need to address getting a
> 'backup computer browser' on the LAN.

I think the only problem is IP address of individual computer. Is this
still static of DHCP? If it is DHCP, which computer is running DHCP?

If the problem occur again, please check both computers IP address.
Even local dns would not help you to solve this as you are connecting
using IP address. DNS only usefull if you are using name, not IP (to
convert name to IP).

DK