Can some kind soul please suggest a solution to the problem I am currently experiencing. I have two PC's.. one (my wifes) is Win2k and the other (mine) is dual boot Win2k and RedHat 7.1. They are both on a 10bT network with hub. When they are both running Win2k they can talk to each other quite happily over the network. When mine is running Linux they refuse to communicate in either direction. If I ping the Win2k machine from Linux I can observe the received packets incrementing on the Win2k machine but am getting no responses from it. Previously (before installing Win2k and RedHat 7.1) I was using Win98 and RedHat 6.2 with no networking problems.

You have samba running, right!? On Redhat 7.1, I think you have to change the firewall setting. # /usr/sbin/lokkit then goto customize section and check eth0 for trusted device. That's what I did.

You just upgraded from Win98 to Win2K on the one machine. 98 is wide open. 2K has (reaonably) good security by default. To get from Linux->2K: a) Samba on Linux (encrypted passwords, see manpage smb.conf and related) b) Matching ID's on 2K (easiest) To get from 2k->Linux a) Samba on Linux (above) b) Matching ID's on Linux (easiest) Your 2K ID's and access for each *MUST* be set up right - and for seamless access should match Linux ID's

I'm not too worried about samba at the moment, setting that up is not a problem as soon as I can get the PC's communicating. At the moment _nothing_ is going through between them (ping, ftp, telnet etc). Will try lokkit again, maybe I just wasn't asking it nicely enough last time I tried it. Cheers... ...Calvin

I am in the same boat but I am trying the Samba I believe thats what was preventing Like Duh? Dman I should have known I was not totally crazy (Too much starbucks coffee)Thanks for the insight Guys !

I have Just set up two machines in the following fassion: WWW - RedHat 7.2 - Win2K I have gotten my linux box online however I can't get Linux or windows to chat. At first thought it could be firewall related since windows thinks I have disconnected my ethernet cable. So I disabled IPTables and I also used "/etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains stop" to stop the IPChains. Still no luck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks Courtney

I use a class c network, and all IPs are 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.255. This config for ipchains after you set up the network cards should probabaly work fine. Please changethe IP addressesin teh lines below to reflect the numbering of your network. Iam a learner too. This works for me. and gives me network access too for all 13 machines on my network. and i dont use a firewall at all...so that is for later. Hope this helps. ipchains -F ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 -j MASQ Shaji