Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

[Tomt <tomt@the-pentagon.com>]

At 10:02 PM 7/20/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>I assume you have tcp/ip installed on the NT machine.  It doesnt come that
>way out of the box.  I think you have to install tcp/ip to even assign an ip
>address.  Make sure you reran SP3 after installing tcp/ip from the NT cd.
Been there, done that.
>My Debian box is set up with route add -net, no gateway, the same as yours.
>The NT box has the Debian box's address in as a gateway, but I dont know
>if that makes any difference.
I have no gateway defined on either machine do I need one?
>Somebody told me that NT quits listening after not hearing any traffic for
>a while.  Try rebooting the NT box after setting the route on the Debian 
>box. 
I have shut both machines down and then restarted them and then in the
first few minutes after being booted I've tried the same thing, no luck.
>You dont need samba just to transfer files or print, if the Debian box is
>hosting the printer.  NT does ftp out of the box (assuming you can get
>the network up of course).  NT can print to a Debian box using the "lpr"
>method.
Don't I need samba to access the NT machine?

Thanks


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