do you mean you CAN ping your win95 box from your linux box using the IP
address of the win95 box, but you *CAN'T* ping your win95 box from your
linux box using the name of the win95 box?
If this is what you mean, the problem is probably because you don't have a
DNS to resolve the local names. You can get around this by adding mapping
the names to the ip addresses in your /etc/hosts file (linux) and your
c:/win95/system32/drives/hosts (win95) file.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 12:24 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] ping doesn't ping
I've tried to connect mywindows 95 and mandrake 7.1 but i don't get a
response from neither computer. What I mean is that I am able to ping
each macine to its own IP address ( i can even ping web site from each
machine) but when trying to ping the other machine in my LAN it does not
work. I check all connections, cables, configurations and everything
it's fine according to the instructions. what can be impeding these two
machines to talk to each other?
