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Re: [OT] windows networking issue



On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:48:45PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:37:07PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> | Sorry for the non-linux question, but I haven't found an answer
> | elsewhere.  
> | 
> | I have a functioning network of two Debian boxes, bravo (10.0.0.2) and
> 
> Two Debian boxes ...  sounds like linux to me <wink>

Well, they aren't giving me any trouble. :)

> | I am trying to add to this network my fiancee's Win98 machine, named
> 
> Ooh, time for some "fun" ;-).

"Fun" is relative.  See following double-quoted paragraph.

> | Any advice, FMs to R, diagnostics to run, programs to install,
> | etc. are more than welcome.  I have been tooling around with this for
> | weeks and I just want it to work.  Thank you for any help.
> 
> I have here a network with 2 Potato boxen, 1 Win98 and 1 Win95
> working.  I setup one Debian box with ipmasq.  All NICs are statically
> configured (no DHCP).  On the 'doze box I set one of the Debian boxes
> as the default gateway.  I set a static IP and no WINS.  I have a
> D-Link switch physically connecting the boxes.

This was what I tried first and I'd be happy to make it work; I have
no particular attachement to DHCP.  

> Can the 'doze box ping itself?  By localhost or 127.0.0.1?  By it's
> external IP address?

Automatically assigning an IP via DHCP:

"ping localhost":  	succesfully pings 127.0.0.1
"ping gow":		succesfully pings 10.0.0.3
"ping 10.0.0.3":	ditto
"ping peon":		"Unknown host peon."  (DNS is disabled anyway)
"ping 10.0.0.1":	"Request timed out."

Statically configured IP:  

"ping localhost":  	succesfully pings 127.0.0.1
"ping gow":		succesfully pings 10.0.0.3
"ping peon":		"Unknown host peon."  (DNS is disabled anyway)
"ping 10.0.0.1":	"Request timed out."

Here's a tcpdump | grep gow with the static IP, watching gow boot up.

09:53:40.859140 arp who-has gow.study tell gow.study
09:53:41.632729 gow.study.netbios-ns > 10.0.0.255.netbios-ns:
[2 more of these]
09:53:41.967426 gow.study > 224.0.0.2: icmp: router solicitation
09:53:42.381266 gow.study.netbios-ns > 10.0.0.255.netbios-ns:
[five more of these]

and after 9:53:43, nothing.  Do your winboxen perform this router
solicitation?  Is it also on this crazy address?

> The biggest issue I had, once I had ipmasq installed, was the 'doze
> boxes not cooperating with Samba.

Oh, that's not good to hear.  Maybe I won't need to set that up.

> If you want more specifics on how I configured the doze systems I can
> turn one on tomorrow and see what it says.

This would be wonderful, thank you.

> On the Debian systems I
> use /etc/hosts to set names for the machines.

10:07 pts/0 $ grep study /etc/hosts
10.0.0.1        peon.study      peon
10.0.0.2        bravo.study     bravo
10.0.0.3        gow.study       gow

Thanks for the help.

Rob

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