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Re: Network setup problems

Ogya Chief wrote:


From: Kent West <westk@acu.edu>
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?


Correct
Can you ping localhost? Do you have other machines on the network you can ping? What's the result of "ifconfig"?
Yes, I can ping localhost without problems. I had another linux machine I could ping on the debian box without problems. It is currently not connected so I could not try to ping it on the Win2K machine. ipconfig on the Windows machine gives the following results: 

Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection:
  Connect-Specific DNS Suffix:
 IP Address           : 192.168.0.5
 Subnet Mask       : 255.255.255.0
 Default Gateway : 192.168.0.1

ifconfig on the debian box gives the following results:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:04:75:9F:5D:42
         inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
I did not change the domain name on the laptop to be the same as that of the other machines on my lan because I would then require the domain administrators password to setup the laptop to work on my work network. Could this be the reason? 

I doubt it; have you tried pinging by address instead of by name?
This "feels" like a problem with Windows; do you have a firewall on the W2K laptop? It might be blocking ping traffic.
I'd pop a Knoppix CD into the W2K box and see if it works correctly on the network; that'll eliminate wiring/etc issues. 

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Kent
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