I have installed NFSD-2.2 in the Puppy Package Manager on Chichi but not on Izzie. I have modified the /etc/hosts files only on Chichi and MARTYS-LAPTOP to show all systems in my network. Chichi has been able to access files on MARTYS-LAPTOP successfully through Pnethood, but nothing on DELLDESKTOP. Pnethood on both Chichi and Izzie are able to "see" the shares on MARTYS-LAPTOP, but none of the shares on DELLDESKTOP. Because they are both Windows (please excuse the profanity) systems, MARTYS-LAPTOP and DELLDESKTOP both see the shares on each other. I cannot escape the feeling that if only I could get the Puppy systems to register their hostnames with my router a lot of the connectivity issues may resolve themselves.# IP Address Device Name MAC Address
1 192.168.1.2 DELLDESKTOP 00:1a:a0:00:45:b5
2 192.168.1.3 -- 00:12:17:52:6c:c5
3 192.168.1.4 MARTYS-LAPTOP 00:14:a5:5c:8d:5c
4 192.168.1.5 -- 00:12:17:52:6e:d1
I have tried everything I have seen in any of the forum discussions to try to get MARTYS-LAPTOP to be able to use the printer and shares on Chichi unsuccessfully. One time I was able to get MARTYS-LAPTOP to "see" the printer on Chichi, but when I tried to send a file there to print it only returned an error. At this time, I am able to "see" the printer on Chichi from DELLDESKTOP but when I try to print to it I just get an error. I don't really care if the Vista system can see the printer on Chichi or not, but I desperately need MARTYS-LAPTOP to be able to use that printer! If I cannot get this connectivity working, I will have to abandon Puppy Linux.