LAN is short for local area network. Commonly refers to cable bound networks.
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Why can't my machine resolve local windows hostnames?
When I ping any local windows hostname from my Ubuntu machine I get "unable to resolve host", but when I ping from a windows machine it works fine. Why would this be?
OS: Ubuntu 10.04
Samba & ...
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How to configure preferred network for internet?
I am connected to a LAN network and wireless network. Both provide access to internet.
Sometimes when the internet on LAN is not working, the browser simply throws an exception instead of switching ...
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I have a laptop, can I use Wifi and cable (Ethernet) networking at same time?
I have an intranet without connection to the Internet, and then I have WiFi with connection to the Internet.
Can I make a configuration that makes it possible to be connected to the Internet through ...
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How to connect to Wired internet connection through terminal?
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 with KDE on it.
I am facing a problem in connecting to wired LAN internet connection.
Can any one tell me the procedure on how to connect to wired LAN internet connection ...
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How do I turn off WLAN automatically when LAN is connected?
I use my Thinkpad laptop with a docking station. The docking station is connected to my router via LAN. When I walk around the house I use my laptop with WLAN.
Is it possible (and how) to manage ...
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How do I set up a LAN game?
I'd like to play freeciv on my local area network over a wireless router. I can get the freeciv server up and running, and the client will connect to the server if I run it off of the same computer. ...
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Connect Ubuntu to other PC with direct (crossover) cable
Ubuntu 11.04 (PC-1) is connected to PC-2 (Windows XP) with LAN cable (crossover direct cable)
Internet access is through USB wireless modem accessing router in separate room
If I boot in Windows 7 ...
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Can I share my internet(lan) through Wifi(adhoc) connection via a laptop?
Is there a way I can share my lan internet connection through my wifi when I has an mesh connection from my android through the Open Garden Wifi Tethering App(A WiFi Tether AP Mesh Client)?
Link to: ...
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LAN between 2 Ubuntu 11.04 OS installed computers
I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 on 2 of my desktops PC's. I have not installed any addon packages or anything related to network. Please guide my on how to set up a LAN between these two machines. is ...
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How do I forward sound from one computer to another over the Lan?
I have two computers. Computer A is running Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome Clasic. Computer B is running Mythbuntu 11.10. Computer B has a sweet digital audio sound system.
I want to play music from Banshee ...
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Connecting to other LAN computers using their names
I have a LAN at home with my desktop and my laptop. IP addresses are allocated dynamically to both, so the IP number keep changing.
I try to connect from one to the other using places->Server, and in ...
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How to make my own local repository?
I would like to build my own local repository on my LAN, so that machines on the LAN can update and upgrade from it. I want to download the packages and store them on my local server so that I can ...
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How to access second disk locally and over LAN
I have just added a second 1TB HD to my Ubuntu box and I can see it listed when I run blkid. But how do I
reference it so I can use it as local storage
share it on my LAN
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Best Wifi Manager [closed]
Which is the best Wireless LAN Manager for Ubuntu Linux?
Is wicd the best one available?
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How to give Wine / Crossover games access to LAN?
I'm trying to do LAN gaming with Crossover for Linux, but my computer doesn't ever get found by other players in my network, neither does it find other players itself.
(I tried with 2 games, Battle ...
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LAN visibility and network sharing
I have two Ubuntu machines with wifi network cards configured as DHCP interfaces.
machine1:
inet addr:192.168.168.105 Bcast:192.168.168.255
Mask:255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.168.252
machine2:
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How do I disable local DNS caching?
I have a small private LAN with 6 Ubuntu systems. To improve performance and simplify maintenance I implemented a DNS server on my Debian firewall/router (dig shows 0ms on repeat lookups).
Will I ...
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How do I share my Ubuntu's Internet connection with a LAN (via hardware router)
I know this sort of question has been asked many times, and I've thus tried many ways to get it working, but I think my setup is a bit different from what I've seen others trying. I've got an Ubuntu ...
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Use two networks at the same time?
I want to use Ubuntu 10.10 Server in a classroom, a computer lab whose bandwidth
is provided by a local cable ISP. That's no problem, though the school network
has an IP printer that I want to use. I ...
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Unable to access folder on LAN since upgrade and switch to KDE
I am running Lucid and after installing some upgrades and switching from Gnome to KDE, I found I can no longer connect to the server on my office LAN. I can see it on the network, but clicking on it ...
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Network Bonding
I am still new to Linux Ubuntu and I wanted to know if it is possible to bond a LAN and Wireless internet connection when both of them use static IP addresses.
My current information is:
LAN: ...
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Lan not working if cable not inside while booting
I have an annoying problem. Every time the LAN cable is not in while booting, I cannot get any connection to the internet, network, router, etc.
I tried to plug in and out the cable several times - ...
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Why does 32 bit and 64 bit Ubuntu OS change the behavior of the r8169 LAN module?
This question is posed because I finished building a new rig with a GA-990FXA-UD3 mobo, unlocked FX 4100 proc, 16gb RAM, and GT 640 graphix card. Started it up and tested the mobo (via BIOS) and all ...
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HDD on a router [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I access an external hard drive plugged into my router?
I am using ubuntu 12.04LTS.
I am using a D-Link router for our wifi here and we have connected an HDD via ...
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Connecting 2 ubuntu machines as a LAN
Hi i am trying to connect 2 ubuntu computers as a LAN.
In my current setup I have:
One machine running ubuntu 11.10 with Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet ...
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Ubuntu 2 network card ip forwarding
I want to make "Ubuntu 11.10" as a router. I have two lan interfaces. Let say interface A ip's is 172.16.1.10 and interface B ip's is 192.168.1.10. How to configure Ubuntu so that 172.16.1.1 can ...
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How to setup a local network over the CAT5 cable?
I use Wifi to connect to the internet, and want to interconnect the two machines I am using so that
it is easy to transfer files
I can copy from one machine and use the same buffer on another ...
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How to switch internet access over multiple ISP connected via LAN ports?
I have two lan ports, I am connected to two different ISP simultaneously.
I am aware that I can use only one ISP at a time. My problem is how to switch active ISP? I want to do this because sometimes ...
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Why can't I get a wired connection to my new router?
I have only had ubuntu for about a month, when i got it i had no problem connecting to our netgear router using an ethernet cable. We have just replaced our router with an identical one (due to ...
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LAN works but Internet gone after going to static IP
I had a perfectly functioning Ubuntu 12.04 system. I saw a YouTube video from DEFCON where a guy was discussing attacking home routers. In an Internet search of home router security I found a 2011 ...
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How to disable/disconnect LAN cable during startup
How to keep my LAN (Ethernet) connection disabled during startup..
Coz when I login to system it is automatically enabled i dont want that due to some security reason.
Want howto in both ubuntu ...
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share on LAN in ubuntu 12.10
how to share file over LAN in ubuntu 12.10.
I have shared some files , but on the other machine it keep asking for password
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Firewall settings for Dropbox LAN sync
I have two Ubuntu 12.04 computers on a wireless home network, kept in sync using Dropbox. I use Dropbox rather than Ubuntu One because of its LAN sync feature - preferable to doing everything via the ...
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Why does Ubuntu only detect one USB LAN adapters at a time?
I try to connect real switch with my computer for an exam preparation, for this purpose I need more than one LAN cards, and there is only one built in LAN card in my computer. So, to get more LAN ...
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How to set up accounts LAN jabber chat server?
How can I implement a jabber chat server on ubuntu with clients on windows?
Server part is almost installed as per jabber and Ubuntu guide how to create users account and authenticate them using ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 causing modem to crash
I've noticed that when my Ubuntu PC is running my internet connection drops periodically. The router seems to be ok, but I notice that my modem drops its connection and takes about a minute to ...
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network profiles in ubuntu 12.04
I use a wired connection at home and in college. But at home i set my ipV4 settings to automatic DHCP whereas in college I need to manually enter the ip address, subnet and gateway and i also need to ...
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It is possible to install Lubuntu with an other computer using LAN cable?
I got a compaq evo n400c computer and it has no BIOS support for the bootable USB flash drives and there is no CD/DVD ROM! So i want to install the Lubuntu 12.04 with the netboot installer, but i have ...
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“connection not visible or not available” after switch DSL to LAN
I had a company computer(ubuntu 12.04LTS) taken home.
My home use DSL and my company use LAN to connect to internet.
The computer works well in my company, but I have to config it after taken home.
I ...
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/etc/resolv.conf managed by NM? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add a DNS server via resolv.conf?
I discovered (with great disappointment) that in 12.04 the file /etc/resolv.conf no longer contains the real nameserver IP, ...
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Created Ubuntu Access Point, can't connect to it.
I have created a wireless access point on my eeepc 701 running a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04.
The configuration:
Ubuntu 11.04 laptop --WIFI--> (ath0)eeepc (eth0) --ethernet cable-->My ISP ...
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How can I setup SSH so that it is restricted to my local network?
I'm trying to link my new laptop running 11.10 to my old laptop running 8.04 through my router using SSH.
This question is asked and answered on ubuntuforums here:
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can't /etc/hosts be set up automatically?
what I need is: automatically add mac-addresses to some file and manually add the hostnames assigned to them, and a script will then scan my home LAN for those mac-addresses and populate the ...
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How to send messages on LAN running on Windows and Ubuntu
In windows, we can send messages on same LAN using the net send command, but how to do this in Ubuntu?
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Where do I find drivers for the Realtek 8111E LAN controller?
I just bought an ASUS P8H61-M LX motherboard. This motherboard comes with a Windows driver package to enable the onboard ethernet port. My troubles with this board are documented here and here. After ...
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Why can't I see my LAN network with Gigabyte GA-H77-DS3H?
I can't connect via Ethernet cable to my Linksys WRTSL554GS router. I think my mobo, a Gigabyte GA-H77-DS3H does not have Wi-Fi so I don't have that option either.
When I do a ifconfig this is what ...
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ubuntu server not resolving LAN hostnames
Bit stuck here.
I have 2 machines that cannot resolve LAN hostsnames, unless there are specific entries in /etc/hosts
But other machines on the LAN can resolves hostnames.
My LAN:
1 x Cisco ...
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No WIFI or LAN on Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 Live CD/USB using Toshiba qosmio x870
I recently had issues with secure boot and couldn't boot the Live CD/USB but after disabling secure boot, I was able to 'TRY UBUNTU'. My currently problem is that I can't access WIFI or LAN from ...
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Networking stopped working on Ubuntu 10.04
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and it was working fine until recently that I had problems with my graphic card which I fixed it and now I have problems with internet connection. I have no internet ...
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ssh within a local network from a large number of systems without password
i read about logging into remote systems using ssh without entering password; and i've established in my system and is working pretty awesome.
now the problem occurs when it comes to a local network, ...
