Topic: How to have Server obtain IP from Router via DHCP?

[idp_qbn]

All of which could have been done with SME, with no time spent building anything special and just as much time configuring (oreven less).

But hey....youhave a working system and that's what you needed.

Good luck -- and glad you solved it yourself because that's howwe all learn.

Cheers
Ian

[RhoXS]

Actually, I would've preferred to use SME...I like the e-smith info bay approach and think it would've worked well. Debian has been a real pain, but is quite flexible.

Instead of helping me see how I could've done this with SME, most seemed intent on convincing me that I was taking the wrong approach and that SME was just fine the way it was...my feature request to allow DHCP connection as an option was quickly shot down.

I got the sense that the developers believed 'real servers' have static IP addresses and an IT support team so 'convenience features' that made headless setup noob friendly were un-needed. I would've made the changes myself...if I'd been skilled enough to do so...but I'm not. But I CAN assemble combinations of packages that work together to get the job done without too much fuss...which is what I did with Debian...and there is a LOT of help on the 'net for it. SME was different enough that shade-tree re-configuration was too far over my head.

As a result I had to abandon it. It's a shame, too...because it worked really well otherwise.

The home server market is about to explode...and once again, Microsoft will become the dominant player because they recognize this and are ready to provide a consumer solution...to MILLIONS of homes and small offices. I don't know how many of these units I'll be able to move...maybe a few hundred...maybe a few thousand...but I would have been quite willing to work out a per unit donation to the SME team.

In the end, I think the NX remote desktop will be a nice selling point and will save me from having to configure an easy web interface as Gnome is nicely developed.

And besides...having your server do things through the NX client...like play music with Rhythmbox...is just plain cool (goes right through corp firewalls too...at least at my employer).

Also...here's a heads up for you...you need to upgrade Samba to the latest release (3.0.25b) to get Vista compatibility...the current version in SME doesn't work well with Vista at all...

Good luck with SME...I still think its a good product - just not the one for me.