On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 00:38 -0600, Michael E. Jaggers wrote:
In <7.0.0.16.2.20060104214507.03544a60@comcast.net>, on 01/04/06 at 10:05 PM, Eric Hines
said: What's going on? Why is this so inconsistent, and what can I do about it? ASCII art on my LAN is just below; all addresses are 192.168.
.3.9 ----------.3.1----samba (PDC/dns/dhcp-----.2.2---------.2.9 (WinXP (NIC) | (NIC) (Win2k laptop) (NIC).1.2 PC) | | Linksys .1.1 | Internet
Eric:
How are your Windows PCs configured wrt the network stack?
Are they configured so that the ONLY external protocol is TCP/IP? (No NETBEUI, etc. on the Windows machines.)
Since you are using a class C non-routable IP address (192.168.x.x), are the netmasks for the windows client set to 255.255.0.0 (the default is 255.255.255.0)? Is the Linksys (I presume a WRT54G) set for the same netmask? (You might consider using a different network, eg 10.0.x.x, as it has a different netmask.)
You need to be more specific about the local machine configuration.
How did you determine that 192.168.x.x would have a different netmask than 10.0.x.x ? That statement does not make any sense. Look at the diagram above. A netmask of 255.255.255.0 is appropriate for his needs. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998