On Tuesday 25 June 2002 17.46, der@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
I'd appreciate it if someone could give me a bit of help or point me in the right direction here.
I want to connect up my laptop at home to my desktop PC. The latter has an "always on" ADSL connnection from eth0 through a network hub then a router to the internet. The IP is automatically assigned, presumably by the router.
If I connect my laptop to the hub, I get internet access in the same way but just cannot connect to the desktop PC. How do I go about setting this up, or do I need a second network interface for both computers? I'm running 8.0 on both - the home PC also has XP and I can't connect to that either through samba (though that's not so important).
I assume from this that you can get to the internet from both computers at the same time. What do you mean by "connecting" to the other computer? Are you trying to ssh into it, reach a web server running on the other computer? What? Do you have firewalls running on either computer? That would block connection attempts. Otherwise, post your routing tables from both machines (the output from "/sbin/ip route") regards Anders -- `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'