Hello, On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Mohan R wrote: > It seems, Vista don't want to connect with Ubuntu. Here is what happend,
> 1. Bought a crossover-cable and connected two laptops. > 2. Both systems started dhcp request, Ubuntu settled with creating one > more ethernet interface 'eth0:avahi'. > 3. Vista created a connection called 'unidentified network'. You should have checked to see what addresses were assigned to the individual machines at this point. There is a link local IPv4 network which is setup automatically by avahi; it is possible that vista does something similar. > 6. At last I tried to ping each other, Vista is able to ping > 192.168.1.2. But Ubuntu was not able to ping, even 'destination host > unreachable' message not appeared. It is possible that vista disables ICMP packets or something. You should have tried to use a TCP/IP service like ssh. Perhaps the vista machine had some firewall rules setup. > (I'm not able to recreate the situation, my friend is > in bangalore now, Sorry for not pasting the output). Problems and solutions that cannot be re-created can generally be treated as non-existent! :-) Kapil. --
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