On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 1:56 PM, vaibhav khatavkar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I have an internet connection shared through a Ubuntu 9.10 > machine(server). I have other two machines (one with ubuntu 9.10 and other > with windows xp) connected to it via switch. The machine with ubuntu can be > pinged from any machine but i cant ping windows machine from any other > machine in network. I can "arping" windows machine. Windows machine can > ping other machines even internet (like google.com) > Is it problem of workgroup ? How do i check my workgroup on ubuntu ? > I have installed samba (thought it could solve my problem) Samba > configuration gui (System > Administration > samba) starts with an error > "could'nt read directives from /etc/samba/samba.conf" .. and list all the > directives from conf file. > How can I ping windows machine from other machine ??
Check the firewall configuration on the windows machine. Most often it's the firewall that is blocking the ping requests. _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
