Thanks for your good and quick response. I probably muddied the waters with the information about the modems and ISPs. It's just that it seems that the fact that the machines are also linked to the Internet at times somehow is connected to their being linked to each other. My Internet hookups (PPP) work okay on the Linux box and the Win 98 one -- and they were working on the Win 95 one, but who knows at the moment :-) It is the three machines that I can't get networking together when Linux is included. What I want is to have the three machines networked together so that they can share each others files and printers (and it would be nice if they could share modems -- e.g. all use the dual analog one on the Win 98 machine, or the 56k one on the Linux one). Although the settings on the Win 9xs are Win 9x issues, the settings on each machine would seem to be somehow related to those on the others if they are to network together. E.g. after a long time I finally learned that I had to assign static IP addresses to each of them. But I'm guessing that somehow they have to be able to find out each other's IP addresses to talk to each other. All help is appreciated! Thanks again! Cheers! Mike Ray Olszewski wrote: > If "all three machines have their own modems and ... my ISPs all use > dynamic IPs", in what sense are the three a "network"? Are you trying to > network them *through* the ISP(s) somehow? If so, I doubt any "simple, > straightforward set of instructions" for that exists. > > For a Linux host running RH 6.0, the PPP HowTo (at > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html) is, though getting a bit old > now, still current enough to serve as a guide for setting up a dial-in PPP > connection. > > For a Windows 98 host on which you "fiddled" with settings ... well, this is > a *Linux* list, after all ... perhaps you should try the support channels > appropriate to Win98? > > At 03:33 PM 3/2/00 -0500, Mike Green wrote: > >I have struggled without success for months to try to get a simple network set > >up for the three machines in my home office: The OSs are Redhat Linux 6.0, > >Windows 95, and Windows 98. When all three were Windows 95 I was able to use > >file and printer sharing among the three machines. > > > >I believe that I have tested well enough to be sure that the network card and > >driver is working well for the Linux machine. At one point a week or so ago I > >was able to ping all three machines from each other. Then I fiddled with some > >more settings and now the Win 98 machine no longer even can ping or be pinged. > > > >I could go on into much, much detail about my configuration and all of the > >things I have tried and places I have looked for help. But what I'm hoping is > >that someone knows of a short, simple, straightforward set of instructions > >somewhere that would walk me through how to do this. (I've searched for > >how-tos, maybe I just missed the obvious.) > > > >I should note that all three machines have their own modems and that my ISPs > >all use dynamic IPs. > > ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Mike Green SaeSolved:: http://www.saesolved.com http://www.widgetchuck.com http://www.sitewidgets.com
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