Ok guys a quick newb question. I have been reading up on the Red Hat Enterprise 4 for dummies book along with installing and playing with the configurations of Cent OS 4. I have yet been able to find any information on how to find out what your IP address is. I have it set to use DHCP from our Windows server and I looked under the network card configuration settings but can not find any command or GUI place that will show your IP Address. When I go to a windows machine and try to ping the Cent box by its name it cant find the host. Now I know I can go into the DHCP server but I need to learn how to find it on the Linux box.
Another question has to deal with Samba. I set up samba using the GUI interface then ran service smb start command to start up samba. The book says I should be able to browse the network with a windows machine now and find the linux box but I am unable to. Any clues why its not showing up on the network?
On 4/27/06, Chris Peikert c.peikert@co.matagorda.tx.us wrote:
Ok guys a quick newb question. I have been reading up on the Red Hat Enterprise 4 for dummies book along with installing and playing with the configurations of Cent OS 4. I have yet been able to find any information on how to find out what your IP address is. I have it set to use DHCP from our Windows server and I looked under the network card configuration settings but can not find any command or GUI place that will show your IP Address. When I go to a windows machine and try to ping the Cent box by its name it cant find the host. Now I know I can go into the DHCP server but I need to learn how to find it on the Linux box.
/sbin/ifconfig ethX where X is the device number. If you're not sure you can just do /sbin/ifconfig and it'll spit up all of them.
Another question has to deal with Samba. I set up samba using the GUI interface then ran service smb start command to start up samba. The book says I should be able to browse the network with a windows machine now and find the linux box but I am unable to. Any clues why its not showing up on the network?
The manual assumes that you don't have a firewall in the way. It's possible that iptables is blocking access to other machines.
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OK guys thanks for your answers. Some of them were way to technical for me being a beginner. What I found instead of ifconfig was: ip addr show
As for the Samba problem I don't have the firewall turned on yet. I don't want the problems while I learn linux. What I did was run the above command and got the ip address. Once I did that I pinged it from windows then I was able to ping the name to make sure I can see it. Once it worked I was able to see the shares now. Part of the problem may have been the DHCP didn't share the information with the DNS in a timely fashion. Thanks.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:27 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to find your IP Address
On 4/27/06, Chris Peikert c.peikert@co.matagorda.tx.us wrote:
Ok guys a quick newb question. I have been reading up on the Red Hat Enterprise 4 for dummies book along with installing and playing with the configurations of Cent OS 4. I have yet been able to find any information
on
how to find out what your IP address is. I have it set to use DHCP from
our
Windows server and I looked under the network card configuration settings but can not find any command or GUI place that will show your IP Address. When I go to a windows machine and try to ping the Cent box by its name it cant find the host. Now I know I can go into the DHCP server but I need to learn how to find it on the Linux box.
/sbin/ifconfig ethX where X is the device number. If you're not sure you can just do /sbin/ifconfig and it'll spit up all of them.
Another question has to deal with Samba. I set up samba using the GUI interface then ran service smb start command to start up samba. The book says I should be able to browse the network with a windows machine now and find the linux box but I am unable to. Any clues why its not showing up on the network?
The manual assumes that you don't have a firewall in the way. It's possible that iptables is blocking access to other machines.
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On 4/27/06, Chris Peikert c.peikert@co.matagorda.tx.us wrote:
OK guys thanks for your answers. Some of them were way to technical for me being a beginner. What I found instead of ifconfig was: ip addr show
ip addr show is the new method which is supposed to replace ifconfig. I keep forgetting to recommend the 'new' way instead of the way I've done it for the last few years. It's much better that you found this way, as it is the 'proper' way to be doing things right now. Good work.
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Disregard .. I took a break and went back to it just now and figured them both out.
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From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Chris Peikert Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:17 AM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] How to find your IP Address
Ok guys a quick newb question. I have been reading up on the Red Hat Enterprise 4 for dummies book along with installing and playing with the configurations of Cent OS 4. I have yet been able to find any information on how to find out what your IP address is. I have it set to use DHCP from our Windows server and I looked under the network card configuration settings but can not find any command or GUI place that will show your IP Address. When I go to a windows machine and try to ping the Cent box by its name it cant find the host. Now I know I can go into the DHCP server but I need to learn how to find it on the Linux box.
Another question has to deal with Samba. I set up samba using the GUI interface then ran service smb start command to start up samba. The book says I should be able to browse the network with a windows machine now and find the linux box but I am unable to. Any clues why its not showing up on the network?
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 08:16 -0500, Chris Peikert wrote:
Ok guys a quick newb question. I have been reading up on the Red Hat Enterprise 4 for dummies book along with installing and playing with the configurations of Cent OS 4. I have yet been able to find any information on how to find out what your IP address is. I have it set to use DHCP from our Windows server and I looked under the network card configuration settings but can not find any command or GUI place that will show your IP Address. When I go to a windows machine and try to ping the Cent box by its name it cant find the host. Now I know I can go into the DHCP server but I need to learn how to find it on the Linux box.
---- please don't send mail in html format
ifconfig
unless a system 'registers' dns name at time of obtaining dhcp address, you can't find it by name. ----
Another question has to deal with Samba. I set up samba using the GUI interface then ran service smb start command to start up samba. The book says I should be able to browse the network with a windows machine now and find the linux box but I am unable to. Any clues why its not showing up on the network?
---- use official samba documentation and you will be better off - especially if the Windows server is a domain controller and is running Active Directory.
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs
see 'By Example' - locate a network setup similar to yours
Craig
On 4/27/06, Chris Peikert c.peikert@co.matagorda.tx.us wrote:
Another question has to deal with Samba. I set up samba using the GUI interface then ran service smb start command to start up samba. The book says I should be able to browse the network with a windows machine now and find the linux box but I am unable to. Any clues why its not showing up on the network?
Hi Chris,
Welcone to CentOS. I think you will enjoy it.
One other thing to add to Jim's response... if you want to do a quick test if iptables is the issue, you can use a command such at "service iptables stop" to shut it down (there are other ways, but this one is basically the same as the "service smb start" command you are already using).
Take care, Kennedy
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