Lets keep it simple... First, Don't use names. Find everybodys IP address. Use ifconfig on Linux, and winipcfg on windows.
1) Can you ping the Linux box from your windows box using the IP address? 2) Can you ping either windows box from your Linux box using the IP address? 3) Can you ping the Linksys router from either windows box (maybe 192.168.1.1) ? 4) At this point, I assume that 1)-3) works. If not, we need to trouble shoot the problem from there. Please reply back with the results. 4) I understand that you can ping all the way out to the Internet to ftp.cdrom.com on your Linux box. From that ping find the ftp.cdrom.com IP address. Now ping the IP Address of ftp.cdrom.com from a windows box. If that works, your DNS is screwed on windows. Put in the two new DNS server addresses into Windows. For me it's 68.11.16.30, 68.1.208.30 . Look in your Linux box to find yours. I have seen DHCP under windows not assign the DNS addresses corectly. Which explains why Linux works, and windows doesn't. Please replay back with your results. -Bruce Kives Terry Stockdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 08:51 PM 1/31/02 -0600, I wrote: >I'm trying to switch my in-home network from static IP addresses to >dynamic. But having consistency problems between Win98 and Linux (RH7.2) >machines. > >1) I'm using a Linksys cable/dsl router to assign IP addresses via >DHCP. I took all machines out of the respective "hosts" files except for >localhost and the 192.168.1.1 router/gateway. >2) My win98 machines are set to "obtain an IP address automatically" -- >and they do >3) The win98 machines can find each other by name using ping. They also >can via "network neighborhood" but I realize that this is via SMB >4) My win98 machines can not find my Linux webserver (in-home only) >5) Linux machines are also getting its IP address dynamically. In this >case, using dhcpcd >5) My linux machines can not find my windows machines by name, either >6) My linux machines can ping ftp.cdrom.com and get successful responses. >7) I am not running Samba on the either Linux machine > >What am I doing wrong? I appreciate all the talk about Linksys support being not the best, Cat5 and other wiring problems, and Zoom modem horror stories. However, does anyone have a clue what's wrong in my setup? Do I have to run a DNS proxy inhouse to get my local network of dynamic IP addresses to talk to each other by name? Is it a Windows vs Linksys issue, SAMBA needed, DNS proxy needed, go back to static IP's on the Linux machines (despite the Linksys getting its DNS via DHCP)? Any ideas? -- Terry Stockdale -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Baton Rouge, LA website: http://www.dadstoy.net ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
