[SLUG] Re: Network

[Pete Redwood]

>Hi Pete,
>
>I would go about setting up your network manually first. DHCP might be
>a bit overkill for a simple home network.
>
>On each machine, bring up the network card and give it an ip address.
>>From a terminal:
>
>ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
>substituting the ip address on the second machine with something like
>192.168.0.2.
>
>Then see if you can ping the other machine. If you don't get a
>response back make sure that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
>contains a 0.
>
>If you still don't get a response, make sure your cable is cat5 crossover.
>
>HTH
>Jamie
>  
>

Cheers Jamie. Response from ping :-

--- 192.168.0.2 ping statistics ---
9 packets transmitted, 9 received, 0% packet loss, time 7999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.173/0.191/0.261/0.025 ms

similar on both machines. ifconfig now gives:-

time:/home/pete # ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:E6:90:4A:F3
          inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e6ff:fe90:4af3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:5900 (5.7 Kb)  TX bytes:6360 (6.2 Kb)
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0xd400

How do I now gain access to files on the other machine?  SuSE still 
insists that I need to set up a network.

Pete