Setting up a Small Home Network [SOLVED]

superlaundry · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 65

I know that this is probably a n00b problem, but I'm having trouble setting up a small home network, two Linux boxes. No static IPs or anything fancy. I just need to be able to print over the network and share files.

Thanks.

hegga · Apprentice Joined: 04 Jun 2003 Posts: 210 Location: Norway

is it something like this you are after?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_setup_a_home-server
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simeli · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:36 am Post subject:

well, static ip addresses in a home network often facilitate things, there is no dhcp server to be set up. if you have a router that does it fine. but you probably don't want to have the printer change its address ;-)

I personally stick with static, to me this seems easier. what exactly is the problem you face? is the printer hooked up directly to the switch having it's own interface or is it connected via usb to one machine that also serves as a print server?
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superlaundry · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 65

All I have is a Gentoo Box and a Suse 9.1 Box with a printer attached, via the parallel port or whatever. The Suse box is wired to a wireless router and the Gentoo box is using the wireless. I don't want a server. I just want to send over print jobs. I know that I've gotten this to work with the same two compters when they had Fedora Core 4 and Windows XP on the printer. I was thinking that two linux boxes would surely work. However, if static IP is the easiest way, can you help me out on that?

simeli · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject:

i have it usually set up this way:

internal router address (router gets its public info via dhcp) 10.0.1.1
computer 1: 10.0.1.2
computer 3: 10.0.1.3
etc.

default gateway for the computers 10.0.1.1
dns for the computers 10.0.1.1

netmask 255.255.255.0 that gives you all the adresses from 10.0.1.1 to 10.0.1.255 to use for local machines.

the 10.x.x.x is a private class A network.

hope this helps
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superlaundry · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 65

Thanks a lot for the help so far.

But before I do anything stupid...

So I set the computers' IP address in the /etc/hosts file.
After that, I'm lost. First, how do I set the default gateway and the dns for the computers? Also, what exactly does the internal router address mean? What should my /etc/conf.d/net file look like? Will the wireless affect anything?

Thanks again.

chrisruwe · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 160

Most modern routers have an option that even when using dhcp, they recognize computers via the mac-adress and always give these the same preconfigured ip. This might save a lot of work.

http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html covers anything you might need for the network-printer configuration.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml is excellent.

simeli · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject:

probably best to read the gentoo handbook on setting up the network. everything is well explained in there what goes in /etc/conf.d/net
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