Ogya Chief wrote:
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
So your Win2K laptop gets the 0.5 address when connected to your home LAN? And your Linux server has the address of 0.1?
I have edited /etc/hosts and included the appropriate lines on the linux serverand also I have the same entries in the hosts file on Win2K. 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
Can you ping localhost? Do you have other machines on the network you can ping? What's the result of "ifconfig"?
On the Win2K machine, the following is what I get: Pinging 192.168.0.1 with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out.
What's the result of "ipconfig" on the W2K laptop when connected to your home LAN?
I am not sure what I have done wrong, and this seems to be very basic stuff.Any and all suggestions are welcome.
-- Kent