On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 20:31:59 -0800 "Mac Martine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello. I am new to Linux, so this should be pretty simple. > > I have RedHat with Samba and Apache. Then I have a Windows machine with XP. > They are both behind my router/firewall which serves dhcp address > 192.168.1.100 and 192.168.1.101. > > In XP I can see the Linux machine, and I can successfully ping it by ip, > but: > > Problem 1: When I ping by machine name the command prompt appears and > disappears without displaying anything.
It sounds like you are trying this from a Win program. Try it from a Command Prompt window, and then see what happens. Sounds like your linux box's name is not in the XP box's C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS file. > Problem 2: When i try to ping my linux machine by ip it gets a reply but > with 100% packet loss. A routing problem? Is your default gateway set? > Problem 3: When i click the icon for the linux box I get the error "Network > Path not found". Are you sure Samba is configured correctly? > Are these problems related? Any ideas for any of them? Maybe, maybe not. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | ! Great Inventors of our time: | ! Al Gore -> Internet | ! Sun Microsystems -> Clusters | +------------------------------------------------------------+
