On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 10:04 am, Nestor Castro wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > >On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 8:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: > >>I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. > >> > >>I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway > >>xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 > >>which uses this gateway, everyone connected also has access to the > >>internet. > >> > >>I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on my computer and assigned an address > >>, configured Mozilla and worked just fine, I can send and receive mail, > >>I can PING my gateway normally and also any other IP address in the LAN, > >>but when I try to PING my computer from another one it does not answer, > >>as a result I can`t connect to the Internet. > >> > >> > >>How do I tell LINUX to be seen by others in my LAN, I experimented on > >>security, but could not find something helpful.. > >> > >>I'd appreciate any help.. > >> > >> > >>Nestor > > > >If you have the Mandrake firewall enabled (it is called shorewall) then by > >default your computer will not respond to pings. It can be enabled if you > >wish, but you do not need it it access the Internet. > > > >More likely you have not defined the gateway address or the DNS server > >addresses you need to access the Internet. > > > >>From your Mandrake Control Centre>Drakconnect GUI > > > >In the centre of the GUI you will see "gateway" it should show the IP of > > your xxx.xxx.xxx.10 If not then press the 'Configure Internet Access' > > button and define it. > >As for the DNS server run the wizard at the bottom of the GUI > >You will have a chance to define the gateway and DNS server address in > > there too. > >If you do not know the DNS address used by your ISP look in your Windows > >computers config, or the support site of your ISP. > > > >HTH > > > >derek > > Derek > > I Checked both my IP adress of the gateway and the DNS and both are > correctly defined, (just as they are on my other Windows computers, and > can also PING them), I also cheked my DrakFirewall and is not enabled. > > I remember Installing Mandrake 8.2 and configuring somewhere the IP > Addresses that could access my computer in particular, but I don`t find > where I can do that in 9.2. > > Thanks for your help > > Nestor
Can you ping outside your network? For example ping 216.109.118.66 (that is yahoo) If that works then try ping www.yahoo.com if that works then so should a browser. The other thing that comes to mind is if you are running a proxy server in your gateway blocking port 80 derek
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