Well FINALLY got to the bottom of this today. You will NEVER guess. NOTHING to do with Mandrake/linux at all. It was a corrupt profile on my NT 4.0 box! ?? I started seeing some other suspicious activity and on a hunch blasted my profile. Voilla! It works like a champ. Who would have thunk!
On Sunday 06 October 2002 12:02 pm, you wrote: > Most likely you have a firewall in place. The default firewall config will > block netbios (samba) and ucmp (ping) traffic > For firewall config help see www.shorewall.org > > You might find the fix outlined here useful > http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=5514 > > HTH > > derek > > On Sunday 06 Oct 2002 6:18 pm, Lorne wrote: > > Hey guys, I have a preplexing situation. I rebuilt my box at work from > > scratch (I kept my home partition). Everything seemed fine until I > > attempted to do a samba share. I couldn't see the share. Went back to > > basics and I can't even ping it. Now get this.. The linux box is > > 172.22.76.15. My windows box is 172.22.76.89. They both have a subnet of > > 255.255.255.0, with a gateway of 172.22.76.1. Both can ping the gateway. > > Both can get out on the internet. > > > > I have found that the mac address of the linux box IS in the arp cache of > > the windows box, so that leaves me to believe that it is my linux box > > that is configured wrong somehow somewhere. Even wilder is they are on > > the same hub, so it sure can't be a misconfigured switch. > > > > What can I be missing in the config files on the linux box that would be > > causing this? I'm ready to start a packet trace tomorrow if no one gives > > me any ides. > > > > thanks in advance.
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