Network Name...dun dun dun...DOESN'T EXIST!

[Eric]

Paradise - still doesn't show up as named in base station manager

smb.conf:

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netbios name = <name>

[Joe]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

In my case, I have a dynamic internal IP address. Having "deadmeat" be accessable to my Windows box which is in the DMZ (I'm well aware of the security risks, but I don't have anything else to put there) and responsible for port forwarding (for httpd, mainly) is much, much easier than running upstairs and setting up the port forward information to send it to a new IP address.

Give yourself a static IP address?

Are you saying I'm too stupid to have tried that?

No.  Too "stupid" to have done it successfully, perhaps.

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better, write a guide on how to do this please. Otherwise, don't act like you're better than me just because your an adult.

[Newby]

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better, write a guide on how to do this please. Otherwise, don't act like you're better than me just because your an adult.

You realize I'd wager that Lord knows more about BSD/Linux than you do? =P

[Warrior]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

In my case, I have a dynamic internal IP address. Having "deadmeat" be accessable to my Windows box which is in the DMZ (I'm well aware of the security risks, but I don't have anything else to put there) and responsible for port forwarding (for httpd, mainly) is much, much easier than running upstairs and setting up the port forward information to send it to a new IP address.

Give yourself a static IP address?

Are you saying I'm too stupid to have tried that?

No.  Too "stupid" to have done it successfully, perhaps.

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better, write a guide on how to do this please. Otherwise, don't act like you're better than me just because your an adult.

LMAO!!!!!!

[Eric]

I'm curious as to why you're willing to go to such lengths just to have your host name show up on a Windows-based router.

In my case, I have a dynamic internal IP address. Having "deadmeat" be accessable to my Windows box which is in the DMZ (I'm well aware of the security risks, but I don't have anything else to put there) and responsible for port forwarding (for httpd, mainly) is much, much easier than running upstairs and setting up the port forward information to send it to a new IP address.

Give yourself a static IP address?

Are you saying I'm too stupid to have tried that?

No.  Too "stupid" to have done it successfully, perhaps.

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better

I wasn't aware that Linux was a programming language.

[Newby]

I wasn't aware that Linux was a programming language.

The fuck is wrong with you? I code Linux and BSD all day.

[iago]

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better

I wasn't aware that Linux was a programming language.

VB is a programming language and Linux is a platform that doesn't support it.  There isn't a problem there. 

[Eric]

When you finally get done messing with VB and realize Linux is better

I wasn't aware that Linux was a programming language.

VB is a programming language and Linux is a platform that doesn't support it.  There isn't a problem there. 

Perhaps not if he would have worded it that way, but he didn't.  You did.

Anyways, my current Linux skill level aside, setting your computer up to use a static IP address is no difficult task, definately not a task requiring a tutorial to be made.  IIRC, it's done through /etc/sysconfig/network/, but I may be mistaken.

[Joe]

But I'd say you're noone to judge which operating system I should be using.

[rabbit]

I say everyone stfu and gtfo if you're not going to help.  This discussion does not belong in a REQUEST FOR HELP THREAD.

Thank you.

[Sidoh]

Please... LoRD transcended the mind of a simple Visual Basic programmer at the moment of conception.

[Newby]

Anyways, my current Linux skill level aside, setting your computer up to use a static IP address is no difficult task, definately not a task requiring a tutorial to be made.  IIRC, it's done through /etc/sysconfig/network/, but I may be mistaken.

The hell kind of distro are you using? Either Slackware isn't standard or that's not standard.

[Eric]

Anyways, my current Linux skill level aside, setting your computer up to use a static IP address is no difficult task, definately not a task requiring a tutorial to be made.  IIRC, it's done through /etc/sysconfig/network/, but I may be mistaken.

The hell kind of distro are you using? Either Slackware isn't standard or that's not standard.

Red Hat.

[Newby]

Figured so. Weird.

[iago]

Perhaps not if he would have worded it that way, but he didn't.  You did.

Anyways, my current Linux skill level aside, setting your computer up to use a static IP address is no difficult task, definately not a task requiring a tutorial to be made.  IIRC, it's done through /etc/sysconfig/network/, but I may be mistaken.

It's different on every distro.  Slackware's resides in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf. 

The only reasonably constant way across most Linuxes/Unixes is
ifconfig <address> netmask <netmask> broadcast <broadcast>