Hello, Steve. Martian Source messages crop up when the NIC receives an incoming packet from a network that it shouldn't be coming from. In your example, it seems that your server has an IP address of 192.168.0.1. The network address portion is 192.168.0. If your client PCs have addresses on networks other than 192.168.0, e.g. 192.168.1.3, then thay won't be able to communicate with the server. The server and client IPs need to be on the same network unless you're getting involved in routing, too. It is also possible that in your firewall config, you have set the server to be protected from internal clients. This would prevent machines inside the firewall from connecting to its services. Look for the FW_PROTECT_FROM_INTERNAL parameter. I used Yast for this. Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: steve [mailto:fsanta@arrakis.es] Sent: 01 February 2002 09:19 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] martian message Hi everyone. 7.3, samba lan 7.3 server with some linux and some w98. The server is a DNS 192.168.0.1 Something has happened after we tried to install the firewall and now the server does not show on the clients although the clients can see each other. We have since disabled the firewall done a rcsmb restart rcnamed restart and rcsquid restart. The clients still cannot see the server (where all their files are and where the internet comes from). We get the message from the kernel as above coming from each of the clients connected. Thousands of them. We cannot ping the clients from the server either nor the server from the clients. HELP PLEASE! Steve. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com