[Wolves] The good samaritan

[David Goodwin]

>>On the client? Did you try pinging by name? (therefore making sure 
>>/etc/hosts works ok).
> 
> 
> Ah, I have failed you Obi-wan Kanobe I only used/checked IP's mainly
> because everyone said if you can get IP's talking you can worry about
> named servers later.
> 


Yeah - I said that. Was just wondering if you'd gone one step further :)


>>
>>Make sure you are running portmap (i.e. "ps -aef | grep portmap" in a 
>>terminal) on the client.
> 
> 
> Do I need to have this running permanently while my connection is up? Eg
> have a terminal open as well as Konqueror (browsing between the two
> systems?

While your connection is up? What connection?

Having a terminal open is generally a good idea anyway - you can do 
handy things iwth it - e.g. tail -f /var/log/messages normally helps fix 
most problems.

David.