On Friday 31 December 2004 13:48, Khanh Tran wrote:
You need to check the NetVista's DNS setting. Make sure that THOSE IPs are accessable (pingable) from the NetVista. Chances are they are not. Also, check that your default gateway is set too (/sbin/route -n).
Ok, thanks. That was the kick I needed. I had already set to what I thought was a match for the setting on the "working" computer. In YaST, under "Network Services" > "DNS and Host Name", the dialog has space to input the DNS server IPs, but that dialog also has a checkbox to select "Update nameservers and search list via dhcp". When that box is checked, the system is supposed to look to the dhcp server and ignore whatever is in the DNS server IP fields. At least, that's what I interpreted, and so I left those fields blank and just checked the checkbox. However, on my "working" PC (this one) I must have, at some time in the past, filled in the explicit addresses for my ISP's primary and secondary DNS servers. Then I had gone back to "Update..... via dhcp", which grayed out the explicit addresses. When I went back to the NetVista (which had blank fields, but which had "Update . . . via dhcp" checked), typed in explicit DNS server IPs and then re-selected "Update . . . via dhcp", it started working. According to me, this should not have any effect, but it seems that it did. We'll file this under "yet another thing that I just don't get", because it seems to be working. Thank you. Kevin