have you tried to ping the winders machine ip? there is a "lineighbothood" in the KDE menu under networking > other, also you might check out "komba2". In Linux, it is neccassary to mount drives or shares and "smbclient nameofwindersboxorIP" should get a list of available shares on that windows box On Monday 10 September 2001 23:19, you had thoughts to the concept of: > s wrote: > > What you need to do is ifdown eth0 first then dial up. (and ifup eth0 > > to restart it) > > > > -s > > Hey there! I was wondering about that. I've been trying to get my 3 > computer systems setup with 2 windoze boxes and my Mandrake setup. I've > configured a few things (with mucho help from etharp and others on this > list). Anyways, I have to do the "ifconfig eth0 down" thingy to connect to > my ISP as well. So, this is the normal/accepted way to do it? > > Now the hard question. How do I wind up actually getting to the Windoze > machines? Its not like I can go into "network neighborhood" or anything > like that! <grin> > > Etharp said to use samba. Have no experience with it. He also mentioned > webmin, which I found. Very awesome looking setup! (more than I know what > to do with. ;-) > > I'm posting some stuff here, maybe you and others can see what is (or is > not) going on... Thanks! ;-) > > [darklord@darkforce darklord]$ su > Password: > [root@darkforce darklord]# ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:6D:19:C1:B3 > inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:225 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:21268 (20.7 Kb) > Interrupt:10 Base address:0xd800 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:8453 (8.2 Kb) TX bytes:8453 (8.2 Kb) > > ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol > inet addr:209.209.188.185 > P-t-P:209.209.170.33 Mask:255.255.255. > UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1 > RX packets:803 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:852 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 > RX bytes:376171 (367.3 Kb) TX bytes:48689 (47.5 Kb) > > [root@darkforce darklord]# ping 127.0.0.1 > PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) from 127.0.0.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=103 usec > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=99 usec > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=97 usec > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=99 usec > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=99 usec > > --- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics --- > 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.097/0.099/0.103/0.009 ms > [root@darkforce darklord]# > > [root@darkforce darklord]# ping 192.168.0.1 > PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) from 192.168.0.1 : 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=105 usec > 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=107 usec > 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=104 usec > 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=118 usec > 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=116 usec > 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=92 usec > > --- 192.168.0.1 ping statistics --- > 6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0% packet loss > round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 0.092/0.107/0.118/0.008 ms > [root@darkforce darklord]# > > Any ideas? Thanks! ;-) ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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