[X4U] 3 network questions

[Colt Freeman]

The only problem I'm running into (other than I'm rust with *nix commands)
is that I can seem to save the file, I've tried chmod to change the
permissions but it seems that my Admin account isn't allowed to do that.
I've also tried to su to root but it's not accepting this admin password
either. I'm confused what I'm doing wrong. I also can not for the life of me
figure out how to allow finder to see hidden files so that I could change
the permissios via GetInfo, I checked the sherlock applecare for any topics
on viewing hidden files and didn't come up with any solutions through that.

I'm also trying to change my hostconfig file per instructions and I'm having
the same problem.

Any help on this new development?
Thanks,
-Colt


On 12/1/05 12:38 PM, "Charles Howse" <chowse at charter.net> wrote:

>> Question 2, on a windows box I can ping servers called, one, two, and others
>> just by typing 'ping one' in the command window. (They are internal servers)
>> How do I do this on Mac?
> 
> You'll have to edit /etc/hosts to add the ip addresses.
> $ man hosts  should tell you everything you need to know.
> Mine looks like this:
> 
> ##
> # Host Database
> #
> # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
> # when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
> ##
> 127.0.0.1       localhost
> 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
> ::1             localhost
> 192.168.254.4   moe
> 192.168.254.5   shemp
> 
> I added the moe and shemp lines for the other boxes on my lan.
> 
> [charles at larry:~]$ ping -c 1 shemp
> PING shemp (192.168.254.5): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.254.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.857 ms
> 
> --- shemp ping statistics ---
> 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.857/0.857/0.857/0.000 ms
>  
> 
> 
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