Most likely you have a firewall in place. The default firewall config will block netbios (samba) and ucmp (ping) traffic For firewall config help see www.shorewall.org
You might find the fix outlined here useful http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=5514 HTH derek On Sunday 06 Oct 2002 6:18 pm, Lorne wrote: > Hey guys, I have a preplexing situation. I rebuilt my box at work from > scratch (I kept my home partition). Everything seemed fine until I > attempted to do a samba share. I couldn't see the share. Went back to > basics and I can't even ping it. Now get this.. The linux box is > 172.22.76.15. My windows box is 172.22.76.89. They both have a subnet of > 255.255.255.0, with a gateway of 172.22.76.1. Both can ping the gateway. > Both can get out on the internet. > > I have found that the mac address of the linux box IS in the arp cache of > the windows box, so that leaves me to believe that it is my linux box that > is configured wrong somehow somewhere. Even wilder is they are on the same > hub, so it sure can't be a misconfigured switch. > > What can I be missing in the config files on the linux box that would be > causing this? I'm ready to start a packet trace tomorrow if no one gives me > any ides. > > thanks in advance.
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