Dear Tathagata, First of all, good news is that your hardware is not problematic. Just the settings need to be changed. See for the solution below - :0) Vivek Tathagata Banerjee wrote: > 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. > By default Windows machines do not provide incoming ftp connection. But if you try from windows machines you should be able to connect to your Linux machine using ftp. If you have tried everything try following too to check it up. netconfig /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart ifconfig [See if the ip address & subnet are correct] If yes then check if ftp rpm is installed and daemon is running. You may try with ftp ip_address_linux_machine from your Linux machine only to see if it allows you to enter. If your dialup server is on Windows then on Linux PC you may share it by setting proxy settings in Browser (Netscape or Mozilla in Linux) only. Nothing else needs to be done. > 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. File sharing is possible between Windows & Linux through Samba only. Try following settings open smb.conf Workgroup = <your domain name> encrypt password = yes # Uncomment it password file = /etc/smbpasswd # Uncomment it come out of smb.conf /etc/rc.d/init.d/samba restart Make your linux folder a share. Restart samba > 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. > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
