At 01:39 PM 12/16/99 -0600, Sean Armstrong wrote:
>Ok. I am not sure if this is off topic or not so
>bare with me. My work network is a NT network
>and most of the computers are Win98 or NT. As
>a matter of fact only three are others(2 linux
>boxes and 1 Mac). Our network has two different
>sets of IP blocks for use. Since they are different
>if I use an IP from the block that is not part
>of the main IP adresses I can not see my computer from
>another win computer. I can not communicate with
>the other block of IPs. I can still connect to the mail
>server and the internet. I think the firewall the company
>has up may be blocking access between the two
>blocks of IP addresses since SAMB uses TCP/IP to
>communicate to the network. The network servers
>are on the main block of IPs and I don't want to
>have to go back to DHCP because that's just as useless.
I doubt there is a firewall between the two blocks of IP's. More likely,
you did not set up your mandrake box with the right gateway address in your
subnet. e.g. if the two blocks are 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 and
192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0, there must be a corporate router that each
subnet can talk to (with an address in each of those subnets). So, for
example, if your subnet is the 192.168.2.0 subnet, and they tell you the
gateway for that subnet is 192.168.2.1, then you put that in the default
gateway entry for you mandrake box, and you will be able to see all
addresses in the the 192.168.1.0 block as well (since they are not local to
your subnet, linux will automatically forward packets for them to the
router...)
