What information is shown in Winipcfg? Click on start, run and type in winipcfg and press enter. This will bring up a window which will show your current IP configuration for the NIC. It should have the IP address, etc. listed. If it doesn't, you have a configuration problem. --- Beau Mersereau Sutin, Thayer & Browne Information Systems Manager bm@sutinfirm.com (505) 883-2500 http://www.sutinfirm.com
-----Original Message----- From: Tim Hanson [mailto:tjhanson@home.com] Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2000 10:12 PM To: suse; sll Subject: [SLE] won't ping
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? -- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
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