On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 11:35 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > 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 The line "PING 169.254.5.217 (169.254.5.217) from 203.146.175.77 " means your Mandrake desktop is trying to reach your Windows box via a different subnet. Either because the Ethernet on the Mandrake box is not configured correctly, or because your route table is incorrect. What do you see if you do 'ifconfig' and 'route' derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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