do you have a correct /etc/hosts file on the linux box?
On Thursday 07 March 2002 07:47, you wrote: > Hi all! > I have a bus topology network of 6 pc's on windows 98 and using winproxy > (set up on NAT) on one of them to get them out on the internet. The network > is working fine on windows platform but I want to "evolve". For a few days > I installed on two of them mandrake 8.1 with KDE. The server is still on > windows platform. I know it sounds like a joke but first I want to know how > a linux machine works before I change the OS on the server. > The browsing and IRC are working fine but now I want to share some files > between all of those pc's. > I installed samba, lisa, reslisa (all the services are running from boot). > The windows computers see the linux machines but from the linux machine I > can't see the other computers. The error message, when I try to browse the > network from Konqueror is: "Could not connect to host localhost". Each > machine has it's own static IP address. What means: host localhost? > I want to share files and printers not only between linux and windows, and > even between one linux machine to another. In fact I want to change the > OS's on all the pc's. > Please, someone help me before I'm geting crazy. I really want to know how > to do that! > Costin
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