On Tuesday 16 April 2002 20:12, Peter Lewis wrote: - As root type in the command: - - ifconfig -a - - Then as any user type in the commands - - netstat -tn - netstat -rn - - See what you get. OK, that makes a difference: ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:2C:01:2B:1B inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:2cff:fe01:2b1b/10 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:175124 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:193281 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:129379728 (123.3 Mb) TX bytes:56967625 (54.3 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:160 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:10432 (10.1 Kb) TX bytes:10432 (10.1 Kb) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) # netstat -tn Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 192.168.1.100:37755 66.57.9.47:6346 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 5514 192.168.1.100:37748 80.62.224.89:6346 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 192.168.1.100:32774 65.119.4.104:143 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 1596 192.168.1.100:37517 80.0.194.171:6441 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 1295 192.168.1.100:37426 24.197.250.5:6346 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 522 192.168.1.100:37782 68.81.42.27:6346 ESTABLISHED tcp 0 1304 192.168.1.100:37815 24.49.156.5:6347 ESTABLISHED # netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth0 So the SuSE IP address for my machine is 192.168.1.100 (may be the same in Win 2k). I pinged from a Win 98 SE machine and was successfull. Now we are getting somewhere ;-) The question is what does this than say about the condition of the SuSE network, i.e. why can't I get smbclient and LinNeighborhood to work? Cheers, Brian