You'd better try explaining it better if you expect any help that might
help. Let's dissect it:
-----Original Message-----
From: SoloCDM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 12:00 PM
To: Linux-Mandrake Newbie
Subject: [newbie] Ping Error
Something is seriously wrong with our network.
A station with Win9x still believes another workstation exists, even though
the other workstation is disconnected.
BobC: What other workstation? What was it running? How was it configured?
Are they all configured that way? Why are you asking this on a Linux list?
When it was connected, I was able to use the other workstation to view the
files of the workstation in question.
BobC: Which was this? Do they each have a name and IP address?
Next, I tried to ping the workstation in question from the server,
but it wouldn't work.
BobC: Which was this one? What does the server run? Does it have a name
and IP address?
I tried pinging from the workstation to the server and it wouldn't work.
What's wrong?
BobC: Many possibilities. Maybe the workstation has no IP address.
No ipchains are running. The cables are tightly connected. Could it be the
NIC?
BobC: Sure, thats poissible... Are all the stations on the segment down?
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Signed,
SoloCDM
BobC: No offense, but maybe you need to start by trying simpler things until
you learn more. You didn't even say what the error was. The odds are very
high this is just a troll post from the looks of it.
People at work will pay me to fix that kind of stuff, so I'd better get
going...
