On Tuesday 16 April 2002 15:55, Peter Lewis wrote: - Can you ping the SuSE machine from the win98 and win2k machines? - Umm, I am not sure how to do this from Win, just run -> ping IP address? Please note that while all machines on the network are PCs, I am a former Mac user and it is there that my strengths lie. Also, note that SuSE is part of a dual boot with Win 2k, you mention SuSE and Win 2k as if they were on separate machines. - - What are the IP addresses assigned to all hosts (and routers if used) and - what are the netmasks? - The LinkSys router is 192.168.1.1 Netmask is 255.255.255.0 No static (?) IP addresses here, but I believe SuSE is always 192.168.1.101 The others are 102, 103 and 104. It seems to simply depend on which router port the various machines are connected to. - - You obviously have internet connection, which host provides that or is it - through a router box? - 3 Com cable modem and LinkSys router. - - Can you reach the internet from the SuSE machine? - Doin it 99.9% of the time. I actually only use Win like most on the list, to run a specific program or two that isn't available with SuSE. - Do you have a DNS on the network? - Loaded question ;-) I really don't know. I have had discussions on the list about this, because I have been trying to equate "computer name" and "workgroup" in the Win world to something in SuSE. I do know that I have tried to equate "thor" as "computer name" or "host" in SuSE and "asgaard" with workgroup" or "host domain", if this helps. - - Are you pinging by ip number of machine name? - I'm pinging by IP. - - (End of third degree for the moment :-) Whew, Brian