Hi, I'm no network expert but I have some practical experience with home networks.
The first thing I would do is check the IP addresses on your home computers. Did you configure these yourself, or are you getting addresses from a DHCP service on your router. The "ifconfig" command issued on each machine should hopefully show you both/all machines have addresses in the same network; likely possibilities are 192.168.0.? 192.168.1.? 10.0.0.? If there is a DHCP service running on the router then the chances are high that you can do what you want and perhaps you are being prevented by firewalls on the computers themselves. Using the Mandriva Control Centre go to the Security panel and double-click the "Personal firewall" option. While you are having "fun" getting the net working it may be a good idea to disable the firewalls by ticking the "Everything" box in the "Which services would you like to allow the Internet to connect to?" list. Now you can try the nmap command to see what your computer can see. It should already be installed but it's no more than a quick "urpmi nmap" away. My net is using 192.168.0.? so here is the output I see from nmap; [root@Tureen rich]# nmap -sP 192.168.0.* Starting Nmap 5.51.6 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-03-04 22:29 GMT Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.101 Host is up. Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.116 Host is up (0.000097s latency). MAC Address: 00:19:DB:4E:A8:61 (Micro-star International CO.) Nmap scan report for gunn (192.168.0.128) Host is up (0.00015s latency). MAC Address: 00:10:4B:C3:BF:8C (3com) Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (3 hosts up) scanned in 10.44 seconds That shows 1 other PC and my DHCP/firewall machine Does any of this help? Richard
