I’m new at openSuSE, and I don’t know how to connect to my local network.
I don’t want to create a new one (the other PCs are still connected to each other) I only want to be able to be part of it again.
Where can I find the “available networks” or something like that?
Sorry, I’m a complete noob when it comes to network issues, so thanks in advance…
What are the Operating Systems installed in the other machines in the network? Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, etc?
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Try the wireless forum and try the stickies at the top of that forum to
get started. Basically there is a Network Manager (two computers, one
kind of behind the other) icon in your bottom panel that will let you
configure wireless.
Good luck.
lustrousdawn wrote:
> I’m new at openSuSE, and I don’t know how to connect to my local
> network.
> I don’t want to create a new one (the other PCs are still connected to
> each other) I only want to be able to be part of it again.
> Where can I find the “available networks” or something like that?
>
> Sorry, I’m a complete noob when it comes to network issues, so thanks
> in advance…
>
>
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They have Windows XP… is that a problem?
Oh and, I checked the Wireless forum, but I really can’t get through all that, I don’t understand it :shame:
By the way, I don’t have wireless connection… the network is through my internet-cable (or I don’t know what’s its name). Or should it be the same to configure?
And the internet is working fine… I get it from one of the PCs in the network… but I don’t know how can I get in the network so that I can share files for example.
We needed to know the operating systems in your lan to find the best solution for your needs, in your case you will need samba to share files, but first you must setup your network, that is, the machines in the same netmask and in the same network and workgroup.
run these command in windows xp
ipconfig /all
and this one in opensuse
ifconfig
and post the results
you must check what is the workgroup in your windows pc
start-my pc-properties-pc name-domain
in opensuse - yast- network services - samba - identities - Name of workgroup or domain
post the results
How many linux boxes and windows boxes are in your network?
Ran the command on one of the Windows-PCs
Unfortunately, all the Windows PCs have Hungarian installed… so I tried my best to translate it 
Windows IP configuration
Station/PC name: Claire
Primary DNA-suffix:
Type of node:unknown
Wins-proxy enabled: no
Ethernet adapter local network
Connection-specific DNA-suffix:
Description: Realtek RTL 8139 family type fast Ethernet NIC
Physical address: 00-13-8F-B0-30-BD
DHCP enabled: yes
Automatic configuration enabled: yes
IP-address:192.168.0.108
Subnetwork mask:255.255.255.0
Default port:192.168.0.1
DHCP server:192.168.0.1
DNA-servers:84.2.46.1
192.168.0.1
Under Linux:
linux-hkgy:/home/Hajni # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:33:02:F0:8D
inet addr:192.168.0.132 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:33ff:fe02:f08d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:32853 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26132 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:28774728 (27.4 Mb) TX bytes:3666074 (3.4 Mb)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0xdead
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6956 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6956 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:654984 (639.6 Kb) TX bytes:654984 (639.6 Kb)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:44:8E:91:39
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-16-44-8E-91-39-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
In Windows, the name of the workgroup: IRODA
In Linux, in Samba, I set the workgroup to IRODA, and it asks for the user name and the key… the problem is, on windows, it didn’t ask for a user name, only for the key… where can I find out what my username is?
Oh, and there are 4 Windows PCs and one Linux (mine) in the network…
Thanks in advance, hope this was helpful for something…
Try to follow the tutorial on Samba:http://opensuse.swerdna.org/suselanprimer.html and if you have questions ask them here. Someone will help you, most of the time swerdna, who wrote the tutorial.
Your network setup is ok, now you have to go to set up samba, Just remember that all the pc must have the same username, and check swerna site for the configuration of a stable network browsing.
Samba and Windows XP SP3 - openSUSE Forums
in that thread I have posted a working example of a smb.conf file for a workgroup.
this file is located at:
/etc/samba/smb.conf
and you can edit it with vi or kwrite.
Remember to open samba server and netbios server in your firewall