David,
Thank you so much for your time!
The firewall feature on XP was already disabled. Here are the settings:
DESKTOP IP Address 192.168.2.2 Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway 192.168.2.1 DHCP Server 192.168.2.1 DNS Server 192.168.2.1
Router IP Address 192.168.2.1 Subnet Mask - I couldn't find this listed anywhere
Thinking I understood where you are going with this, I tried re-setting everything on the laptop to match these numbers, but it still didn't work (although I don't know what I'm doing so I may have missed something). I also tried leaving everything on "auto" so it would detect settings on its own, but that didn't work either.
I really appreciate your help!
David A. Bandel wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:35:51 -0700 Tom Lombardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am trying to get my laptop, running RedHat Linux 8, to connect to my
desktop, running Windows XP, both of which are attached to my Dell
router. The desktop is attached with a cable, and the laptop is connected with a wireless card.
Please tell us the IP/netmask of each interface (router and systems)
I can ping the router from my laptop just fine, and I can connect to
the Internet as well (thanks to Fourmun, who replied to an earlier
post to this excellent newsgroup).
Note: XP has a "firewall" "feature" you may need to disable. Sometimes XP outsmarts itself.
But I can't get the laptop to connect to the desktop so I can back up
files and use the printer. I am using KDE and Konqueror, and I've
gone through the LISa set-up. The network's name is "earthfirst" and
the router's name is "my.router" and the desktop's name is "DESKTOP". When I type in "lan://earthfirst" or "lan://my.router" or
"lan://DESKTOP" in Konqueror or in the terminal window command line,
the laptop can't connect. I mention all of this becuase I think it is
relevant.
Let's get TCP working first. NetBEUI is braindead and needs help, but won't work at all if the TCP/IP stack/routing is hosed.
Also, the "route" command does not work in my Linux terminal window, so I can't check to see what the laptop sees. When I type "route man" in the terminal I get the manual page for "route", but when I try to run the "route" command I get a "bash: route: command not found" error. This has happened to me before, where a command will show up in the manual but it won't run when I try to use it. That seems weird to me.
Try running it as root or using a full path /sbin/route -n
If you have any suggestions as to how I can get my laptop to write files on the desktop and use the printer, I would be very grateful.
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Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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