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Special Forums IP Networking Changing IP address Post 302517306 by Len351 on Tuesday 26th of April 2011 11:25:53 AM
Old 04-26-2011
Changing IP address
My work has a Unix based system that currently has the IP address 192.9.2.25
We recently changed internet providers from DSL to Cable. By doing so, we had to get a new router (Belkin) since the DSL provider had a wireless router/modem in one. With the DSL setup, I was able to change the router's IP address to 192.9.2.1 and everything worked great when logging into the system from another computer.
The problem I'm having now is that the Belkin router won't let me change it's IP address to 192.9.2.1. I called Belkin and they said the first two numbers must be 192.168 and that there's no way to change that. I wish I knew that before I bought it. I spoke with the company who's software we use on the Unix machine - which is the only thing on the server - and they said I'd have to change the IP address of the server and all the printers. They want to charge me for hardware support. I don't see it taking an eternity to do - I just want to do it right.
That being said - how do I change the IP address on the Unix server? I did a search on this forum and found this -
(copy and paste - I can't post URL's yet.) unix.com/ip-networking/6954-how-reconfig-ip-address-solaris-unix-system.html

My info is as follows on the server when I went to ifconfig -a:
net0: flags=4043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> MTU 1500
inet 192.9.2.25 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.9.2.255
perf. params: recv size: 32768; send size: 32768; full-size frames: 1
ether 00:04:75:ea:81:fd
lo0: flags=4049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> MTU 8232
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
perf. params: recv size: 57344; send size: 57344; full-size frames: 1

So...how do I permanently change the IP address and what commands do I use to get into it? What should I make the IP address? 192.168.2.25?

My internet info is as follows:
Cable Modem WAN 10.1.10.11
Belkin Router LAN 192.168.2.1
Submet Mask 255.255.255.0

If possible, can you please explain it like I'm 5 years old and never used Unix before? - because I know nothing about UNIX. It took me a little just to figure out how to get that above info to show on the screen. I do have access to ROOT if that helps. All I know is how to get to the # symbol and type ifconfig -a so far and it is Sun Solaris.

Thanks!
 

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findsmb

FINDSMB(1)							   User Commands							FINDSMB(1)

NAME

       findsmb - list info about machines that respond to SMB name queries on a subnet

SYNOPSIS

       findsmb [subnet broadcast address]

DESCRIPTION

       This perl script is part of the samba(7) suite.

       findsmb is a perl script that prints out several pieces of information about machines on a subnet that respond to SMB name query requests.
       It uses nmblookup(1) and smbclient(1) to obtain this information.

OPTIONS

       -r
	   Controls whether findsmb takes bugs in Windows95 into account when trying to find a Netbios name registered of the remote machine. This
	   option is disabled by default because it is specific to Windows 95 and Windows 95 machines only. If set, nmblookup(1) will be called
	   with -B option.

       subnet broadcast address
	   Without this option, findsmb will probe the subnet of the machine where findsmb(1) is run. This value is passed to nmblookup(1) as part
	   of the -B option.

EXAMPLES

       The output of findsmb lists the following information for all machines that respond to the initial nmblookup for any name: IP address,
       NetBIOS name, Workgroup name, operating system, and SMB server version.

       There will be a '+' in front of the workgroup name for machines that are local master browsers for that workgroup. There will be an '*' in
       front of the workgroup name for machines that are the domain master browser for that workgroup. Machines that are running Windows for
       Workgroups, Windows 95 or Windows 98 will not show any information about the operating system or server version.

       The command with -r option must be run on a system without nmbd(8) running. If nmbd is running on the system, you will only get the IP
       address and the DNS name of the machine. To get proper responses from Windows 95 and Windows 98 machines, the command must be run as root
       and with -r option on a machine without nmbd running.

       For example, running findsmb without -r option set would yield output similar to the following

	   IP ADDR	   NETBIOS NAME   WORKGROUP/OS/VERSION
	   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
	   192.168.35.10   MINESET-TEST1  [DMVENGR]
	   192.168.35.55   LINUXBOX	 *[MYGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.6]
	   192.168.35.56   HERBNT2	  [HERB-NT]
	   192.168.35.63   GANDALF	  [MVENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.5a for IRIX]
	   192.168.35.65   SAUNA	  [WORKGROUP] [Unix] [Samba 1.9.18p10]
	   192.168.35.71   FROGSTAR	  [ENGR] [Unix] [Samba 2.0.0 for IRIX]
	   192.168.35.78   HERBDHCP1	 +[HERB]
	   192.168.35.88   SCNT2	 +[MVENGR] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0]
	   192.168.35.93   FROGSTAR-PC	  [MVENGR] [Windows 5.0] [Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
	   192.168.35.97   HERBNT1	 *[HERB-NT] [Windows NT 4.0] [NT LAN Manager 4.0]

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

       nmbd(8), smbclient(1), and nmblookup(1)

AUTHOR

       The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
       Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

       The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
       Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
       DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.

Samba 3.5							    06/18/2010								FINDSMB(1)
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