Hoo boy---
Several things could be going on
What are the IP addresses, first?
On the windows machines right-click network neighborhood and check their
properties for protocols. Is WINS on or off? NetBIOS? Is there a gateway
defined? Is DNS enabled or disabled? What are the IP addresses assigned?
Much more important, what are the netmasks?
I had a similar problem where a client had set up several Windows boxes with
IP addresses in the range 192.168.1.x, and then set up the linux box at
192.168.2.3...
With the netmasks set at 255.255.255.0, the machines believed they were on
different networks and would not talk to each other, because the netmask told
them differences in the first 24 bits were significant. ICMP ping should work
in such a circumstance even so, though.
I would assume these were either daisy-chained with RG58U coax or plugged into
a hub. If it is a hub, could one of them be plugged into "Uplink"? Is it
possible than any of the cables are either a) crossover type, for tying hubs
together or b)just plain defective? Also, try removing and reinserting the
cables from the linux box--it could be a poor connection (I have seen THAT
cause more problems than all other flaws combined)
Civileme
FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN wrote:
> I've got Linux installed on a 5x86 133 with 12MB of RAM, and a 400MB hard
> disk with an Allied Telesis 1500T ethernet card. I have a network
> set up with the linux machine, and two
> windows machines. The network card in the Linux box is recognized by the
> OS, and when I try to ping the other machines, the transmit light flashes,
> but it doesn't get any responses from either windows machine. Likewise,
> when I ping from the windows machines, they can hear each other fine, but
> they don't get a response from the Linux machine. Can anyone help?
>
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