On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, chris wrote:
>
> all computers have 'real' ip's from my 'c' class and all are in the dns
> records, all computers can ping each other by ip or host.domain name
> the win95 pc dose not have anything in its hosts file, and connects to the
> 4 other linux box's with out any problam , is the hosts file on the win95
> box the same format as on linux ?
>
It is the same format. Seems to me that your linux box is blocking
connections from the win95 box ; might be an error in /etc/hosts.allow or
/etc/hosts.deny.
If it isn't some kind of config that blocks just that specific IP, I don't
know what the problem could be.
Frank
>
> chris
>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a small problam with one of my linux box's ..
> > >
> > > I can telnet form
> > > linux box 1 to linux box 2 ok
> > > linux box 2 to linux box 1 ok
> > > win95 box to linux box 1 ok
> > >
> > > but just can't from
> > > win95 box to linux box 2 ok
> > >
> > > both have the same kernial's and network settings ( different ip's )but
> > > from there I'm stumped :-(
> > >
> > > chris
> >
> > You should give more details : do you use a DNS? Do you try connecting by
> > hostname or by IP ? Does the win95 box give an error message ? Which ?
> > Does ping work ?
> >
> > My first guess would be that linux box 1 is in the hosts file of the win95
> > box, but linux box 2 isn't.
> >
> > Frank
> >
>
> Have you hugged your nerd today?
>
>
