Mick wrote: > On 05/05/06, Teresa and Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is the home edition and ping was not there before. I just >> reinstalled it, it crashed, I may give it another go. Maybe this >> install has it. > > > The home edition also has the ping command. Bring up the c:> prompt > and ping your Linux box address. Also, netstat -ano will show you > which ip addresses your windoze box is connected to.
That was where I went and it said it was not there on the old install. I'll try later on the new install. Maybe, just maybe it will be there. > > On the other hand, why does it crash? Are you sure it is an OS > problem and not a hardware problem? These days a properly configured > and patched Windoze box should be pretty stable. It had a bug, she tried to fix it and deleted something. Boat anchor after that. O_O > > PS. Block 135-139, 445 and 3389 ports to/from the Internet at the LAN > periphery. Otherwise, your box could get backdoored before you even > had a chance to run any M$Windoze updates. ;-) > -- > Regards, > Mick > I think most if not all my problem is the Linksys router. I don't think I have it set up to let the two systems connect to each other. I'm not sure where to even start either. She lost the book to the thing. I did trial and error to get the internet working. < sighs > Dale :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
