Re: Network setup problems
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 06:34:01 +0200, Ogya Chief <ogyachief@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a Win2K laptop with a full computer name like henry.workdomain.com
> and a domain name like workdomain.com. This gets assigned an automatic ip
> address anytime I log onto the work network.
>
> I have a small linux network at home and I wanted to setup samba to be
> able to use the laptop at home to share files on it. For this reason, I
> assigned a static ip address to it as follows:
>
> ip address: 192.168.0.5
> subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
> default gateway: 192.168.0.1
>
> I have edited /etc/hosts and included the appropriate lines on the linux
> server
> and also I have the same entries in the hosts file on Win2K.
what seems to me ,is that you have duplicate ip's on both
linux and win2k machine . as you say "also I have the same entries in
the host file on win2k" if my guess is wrong please supply full detail
of your linux and win2k
machines host file output.
>
> On the linux box, if I try to ping the Win2K laptop, I get the following:
>
> PING laptop.network.home (192.168.0.5): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
> ping: wrote laptop.network.home 64 chars, ret=-1
>
> On the Win2K machine, the following is what I get:
> Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
> Request timed out.
>
> I am not sure what I have done wrong, and this seems to be very basic stuff.
> Any and all suggestions are welcome.
>
> Regards
> Ogya
>
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