> Antony Stace wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks I have a Linux box with two ethernet cards in it. Each of
> > these is connected to a Win95 machine.Both of the machines can connect
> > to the internet and also ping/telnet to the Linux box. What I cannot
> > do is ping either of the Win95 machines from each other or be able to
> > see each of the machines on the Network Neighborhood icon in Windows
> > Explorer. What do I need to do?? Here is the routing table route
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref
> > Use Iface
> > 192.168.1.1 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0
> > 0 eth0
> > 192.168.1.2 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0
> > 0 eth0
> > 203.134.20.19 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0
> > 0 ppp0
> > 192.168.1.4 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0
> > 0 eth1
> > 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
> > 0 eth0
> > 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0
> > 0 eth1
> > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0
> > 0 lo
> > default 203.134.20.19 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
> > 0 ppp0 Cheers Tony
> You need to install and configure samba (www.samba.org, if it didn't
> come with your distribution). Your linux box will then be able to appear
> as a Windows machine to the networked PCs and even to be a domain
> master.
If you install samba as a wins server and configure both windows machines to
use it, they would show up in the networking neighbourhood. But they would
propably still not be able to connect to each because they have no route to
each other. Fix this by running something like "route add 192.168.1.4 gateway
192.168.1.1", and "route add 192.168.1.2 gateway 192.168.1.1" on the other.
This way they would know how to find each other.
If you can live with not seeing the computers in the networking neighbourhood,
you can skip the samba server and do something like "\\192.168.1.2\<SHARENAME>
" when you want to connect to a share on the other win machine.
This is my 5 cent..... Hopefully not completely wrong ;)
Mail me if you still cant get it to work.
Cheers
/Fredrik
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