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Ubuntu Prob !!! Need Help !!!

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Robroy11976

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I have this problem in Ubuntu. After I've install the version 5.10, i tried setting up the network to link with my windows workstation. How could i do it with a DCHP server but only 2 windows workstation and 1 ubuntu???

2nd question is .... i chose the DCHP settings and typed WORKGROUP in the domain name ... i logged out then logged in, it then says that "cannot look out internet address for." then it says that i can address the problem by inserting it at etc/hosts. I assumed that it means i correct it in the terminal window, in which i don't know how to .... now i can't open the network setting of ubuntu. The network applet just load and just exit. What should i do???
 
Not sure what you are saying... I am not sure exactly what that 'cannot look out internet address for' means. Is it talking about the hostname or domain name or something?

As for the network applet. I dont' know much about Ubuntu does their stuff. If you accidently crashed the original window it could be running in the background and preventing new applet windows from being openned.

I am going off of Debian Unstable, but Ubuntu should be similar.

Try openning up gnome-system-monitor. You can usually find this if you go thru the application menu, to system utilities, and then find the system monitor icon. Open that up and look for anything that could be your network applet. If you find a instance of it try right clicking on it's name and selecting 'kill proccess' and that should kill it. Then it should either ask you weither or not you want to reload the applet and you should select 'yes' or try finding a network configuration tool either thru applications ---> system tools or Desktop ---> administration window.

This time just leave that 'domain name' section blank and just select dhcp configuration. The dhcp server will have it's own domain name thing it uses, I beleive.

See if that helps.

Either that or it might be easier to log out and log back in after 30-40 seconds or so, or log in as a different user. Or maybe simply reboot. Whatever would be easiest for you.

I am not sure what went wrong exactly and I can't make much sense from that error message you wrote out. Maybe if you give the complete error exactly as it was spelled out then maybe somebody can help better.

Also if you want to open a terminal, that icon should be close by the system monitor icon in applications --> system tools menu. Although Ubuntu may have the menus setup differently then what I am used to.

For ubuntu-specific help you can probably find more accurate answers at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/
 
Also 5.10 is the beta version of the next release "Breezy Badger"

Thus a lot of stuff is broken, fixed and the broken again every single day!

Perhaps you would be better starting off with 5.04 release, particularly lots of network components including dhcp3 have been pretty horrific at times with breezy.

 

It happened when i tried to contact ubuntu to my other windows pc. I change the hostname to WORKGROUP, in which my other pc's belong, but it won't detect the windows network (after logged out & in). Then, i typed WORKGROUP in the domain name instead of host name. After logged out & in, it prompted me that it "cannot look out the internet address for", and "you could correct it by adding it in etc/hosts". From there, i can't open the network window nor the package manager ... i tried to check in the system monitor, but i can't locate which one is the network file that is running. Now i can't do anything to change the setting in the network window.
 
Ya... Linux follows Unix networking convientions. Windows and PC workgroups are something else.

Domain names and hostnames are the same to Linux as they are to the internet (since the internet is a Unix-style network). It's all TCP/IP with no netbuie, netbios stuff or anything like that.

Domain names are like ucla.edu or anandtech.com or someclassname.someschoolname.edu.

Hostnames are the name of a specific computer (or sometimes virtual computer/server). So if your domain was something like "yourprivatenet.com" and your hostname was "mypc" and the network was setup with real networkable ip addresses then anybody on the internet can find your PC by using: mypc.yourprivatenet.com

Then also you'd have a username for your specific user. A person then technically find you on your computer by using: robroy11976@mypc.yourprivatenet.com in various commands.

Which is familar because that's how e-mail addresses work, also.

But most of us are on private networks. Your domain name will get setup by the dhcp server usually and all you have to worry about is the hostname. Nobody can realy get a hold of you that easily anymore because we all use private network ip addresses and sit behind firewalls and such.

Windows workgroups on the other hand came from small private lans were you have a file server or something that you'd need to talk to and such.

For windows file and print stuff Linux has to use a program called 'samba' to do the communication. Ubuntu and such will have that sort of functionality built into the GUI in a limited fasion for when you have to scan a local lan for file shares and such.. but how you setup the network isn't the same as Windows so much.
 
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