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[tjhanson@xxxxxxxx (Tim Hanson)]

I'm pretty well at wits end.

For many months I have been running a three computer 192.168.*.* home
network, with one being a firewall to a cable modem.  Behind the
firewall is a SuSE box and a Windows 95 laptop.  Everything has been
running just fine all this time.  Samba works great for the laptop, and
I use the SuSE computer as my main storage and working system.  I use 
the laptop when I need things like Quicken.

I put together another Windows box, a dual boot with SuSE and Windows 98
today.  I included the old familiar Linksys card, just like always.  The
SuSE side connected to the network just fine, but the Windows side won't
ping or be pinged.

I don't think it's hardware, since everything works fine when the
computer is on the SuSE side of the dual boot.  On the Windows side, I
configured everything in Control Panel | Networking just like the
Windows 95 laptop.  I created c:\windows\hosts and made it identical. 
For Samba, I enabled plain text passwords like the book instructs, and
like the laptop has had all this time.  lmhosts doesn't exist on either
windows machine, with no ill effect on the laptop.  Still, no ping
either way to or from this computer while on the windows side.

Can anyone think of what I may have missed?  Is there something about
Windows 98 that's weird, or that is handled differently than W95?

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