UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hiya all,

How do I get the IP address of my local unix box???

IPconfig - don't exist
nslookup - only for other boxes....


I have my Fedora Server now on the office network. Can ping others, can get onto internet via web proxy....

Also:

How do I create a Drive Share, so our windows machines can view???


Please advise
Cheers
MArtin

You could try entering the following command:

netstat -in

, this will give you a table of information about all IP interfaces in your box. This will include the loopback interface (usually called lo0) which will have the address of 127.0.0.1, and then you will see the network interfaces (usually called eri0, eri1, etc. according to the number of network cards you have in your box).

be careful to distinguish between the "Net/Dest" IP address, and the actual IP address which is under the "Address" column (the "Address" column is right after the "Net/Dest" column so you will see two IP addresses next to each other, the one you desire is the second one.)

use ... "ifconfig -a", disregard the lo0 output, and look at the ip address listed right after the word "inet" on the second line ...

Code:

hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
	inet 192.168.111.50 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.111.255
	ether 8:0:20:xx:xx:xx

or look for your box's name in /etc/hosts ...

Code:

root_mybox:/tmp # cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost	
192.168.111.50	mybox	loghost
192.168.111.80  myprinter
root_mybox:/tmp #

mybox has 192.168.111.50 as it's ip address

Install and configure, Samba


"Samba is software that can be run on UNIX, Linux. Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol that is installed on the host server. When correctly configured, it allows that host to interact with a Microsoft Windows client or server as if it is a Windows file and print server."

If you are running GNU/Linux and Ms Windows on the same machine, you can create a partition, using the FAT32 filesystem, which can become a shared drive between both OS's.

wow, thanks guys!

I'll give it a go in a bit!

Code:

nslookup `hostname`

$/sbin/ifconfig `grep 'inet addr' | grep -v '127.0.0.0'`
had to struggle with this one a little! hope it helps
moxxx68..