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can you ping one laptop from the other laptop?

No, I can't.

I can't ping to the other named machine, as in <ping mu>

If I do <ping mu> from the machine named "mu", it pings itself just fine.

Both machines appear to be set up for DHCP in the same way, and can see the outer internet just fine, as in when I ssh to my ISp's linux web server. They can't see each other as named machines.

Try pinging by IP address instead of machine name. (ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

How do I find out what ip address they have gotten from the DHCP server in the router?

ifconfig ------ Eric Carbone

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I also can't see the Apple machines from the Linux boxes, or vice-versa. I'd like to make it so the Linux machines are visible & log-inable inside my LAN.

You need to set up netatalk in order for the macs to see the linux

in the Chooser.

Contact me off-line if you need help setting it up.

To work the other way around (to see the macs from the linux machines) ... well, i haven't tried it but here is the way to do it: http://www.anders.com/projects/netatalk/mirror/afpfs-1.0b2q2.tar.gz

--------------------------- Eric Carbone

-----Original Message----- From: tauzero.com/suse [mailto:suse@tauzero.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 2:46 PM To: SuSE Subject: [SLE] basic networking in LAN with DHCP

I have two laptops running SuSE Linux 7.3 as part of my home network. Both are using 802.11b wireless, and hook up just fine through an Apple Airport for access to the external internet - they are able to browse the Web, fetch

and send Pop email, do ssh to external machines, etc. The Airport is connected vie ethernet to a 3Com ISDN modem with an integrated firewall and ethernet hub; the DHCP is done on the 3Com box. They are also able to

to an Axis printserver that I have connected to the 3Com box - they are able

to find it as a named computer, and address its print queue. I also have six

Apple Macs on the network; they are all able to see each other via Apple's file sharing methods, and print, and access the external web .

Here is the problem: I can't figure out how to go from one Linux laptop to another, via rlogin, ssh, etc. I also can't see the Apple machines from

machines print the

Linux boxes, or vice-versa. I'd like to make it so the Linux machines are visible & log-inable inside my LAN.

This is probably dirt simple (I hope so anyway!), but I just lack the one or

two essential bits of know-how that I have not had the wit to glean from the

available documentation.

I'd appreciate any advice & pointers.

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