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