folks,
i was recently trying t set up a lan among two windows machines and one
pcqlinux 7.1 machine in a cybercafe.
problem is, though the ethernet card is ( i believe) properly configged and
initialised on bootup (it says "bringing up interface eth0...... okay"),
the only communication between the linux machine and the other two machines
is through ping. i can ping and it pings alright, but i can't do anything
else. i have tried ftp (with gftp and ncftp), telnet and everything. nothing
works. ggftp says connection was refused on the win machine. but the windows
machines do not have any kind of firewall installed, and i was careful to
turn firewalling off in linux. nevertheless, communication fails both ways.
my ultimate object is to enable internet connection-sharing (the single
connection is owned by one of the win machines) and file-browsing among the
three machines.
the linux machine is actually a dual-boot machine which, when running winme
like the other two machines, happily shares connection and files with the
other machines.
what stumps me is i can only ping but so nothing else. if it were some kind
of hardware problem, that shouldn't have worked either.
so please help me out.
this cafe is in sodpur, so if anyone is interested to look at the problem
first-hand, please contact me. i'll be glad to take you there.
thanks.
- tathagata.
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