Re: [SLE] won't ping

scsijon wrote:

Many things are different. It would be easier to ask what is the same, and the answer would be the Icons (most of them)!

I guess the first question is which version of windows98 are you running?

There are 4 - Version 1a with 56bit encription (International?) - Version 1b with 128bit encription (USA Only?) - Version 2a with 56bit encription (also known as '98SE) - Version 2b with 128bit encription (USA Only?)

If you have the first two or fourth my best bet is go buy a new copy and start again. I have only had acess to the 56bit versions here but from others complaints and mine back to MS the third seems to be the only one that works across most platforms. I also sugest you install the ServicePack for '98 as it does fix some IP related networking problems.

Hope this gives you some, help????

How do I tell which one I have?

regards scsijon ps, can you ping back and forth between the '98 and '95 boxes?

No. However, it pings its own address and localhost. Also you need

to COLD BOOT into the '98, you can't do a soft reboot as you can do from '98 to linux as '98 needs to write data into the LAN Card ports and can't handle already loaded port registers for some reason.

A couple of tries were power down. I wonder if I have a driver problem.

-----Original Message----- From: Tim Hanson To: suse ; sll Date: Sunday, May 21, 2000 2:14 PM Subject: [SLE] won't ping

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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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