Hi all, well I've been trying to get these two boxes [my Mandrake 9.0 desktop and my Thinkpad with WIN2KPRO] talking, and haven't been able to get Samba to do much of anything. I had an idea to try the basics, and surprise surprise, it's no wonder Samba is having trouble - the two boxes aren't even recognizing each other!
I ran ipconfig on the windoze box and it said: autoconfiguration IP address: 169.254.5.217 so from a terminal window on the Mandrake box I typed: ping 169.254.5.217 and got: PING 169.254.5.217 (169.254.5.217) from 203.146.175.77 : 56(84) bytes of data. but then it just sat there and did nothing. So then I pinged 203.146.175.77 from the windoze box and it returned 4 lines of "Destination host unreachable". Needless to say, these two boxes talk to each other just fine over the same bit of cable using the same internal LAN cards they both came with when they're both running windoze... What do I have to do in Linux to make the network work? [btw it connects to the internet just fine via the modem] TIA for any help [again] :) -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618
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