On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 13:44 -0500, vodhner@cox.net wrote: > Thanks to all who replied. > > Alex Dean wrote: > > ... by keeping DHCP running, you make it easy for > > guests who bring over laptops to join your network. > > Oops, I hadn't thought of that! > I was just thinking of the two boxes that live here. > We do occasionally have visitors who plug in. > > I don't think my off-brand router lets me reserve > IPs under the DHCP service, and it does change the > assignments ... Our XP box lost Samba workgroup > contact with the Linux box because the latter > apparently moved to 192.168.1.24 which ZoneAlarm > did not have as a trusted IP. (Does the free > version of ZoneAlarm accept 192.168.1.* in the > local network definition?) I haven't used ZoneAlarm in awhile, but when I did in the past the free version had the ability to set a trusted IP range (eg 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.255) Not sure if this capability is still in tact with the latest free versions... -- Thank you, Wesley Novack http://wesleytech.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss