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I have an old Panasonic PC onto which I have loaded RedHat 7 something or other. It is connected to a XP Home PC by crossover cable. The Win PC can see and resolve the Linux box OK but the Linux box cannot ping the Win PC. The eth0 is manually configured to 10.10.10.20 (Win Box:10.10.10.10) and up & running but cannot see the Win Box. Any obvious errors ? I am setting this up as a training machine for myself. I have configured SMB.CNF and can stop and start the server ok and I have also inserted the win box into the hosts file but still no joy. Any help gratefully received.
That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The Atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.
- Admiral William Leahy
Are you able to ping via IP? If so and as it is a small network you may just want to make an entry in /etc/hosts.
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Ihave made an entry in the smb\hosts file, so I should also update the etc/hosts as well? I assume I am pinging by IP because I get a reply from the Win box but nothing from the Linux box.
That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The Atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.
- Admiral William Leahy
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So if you ping 10.10.10.20 from the linux box you get replies but not if you ping 10.10.10.10? You may find that with some smb tools like smbmount or smbclient the names will resolve but other tools like ping and mount only allow you to access the windoze machine via IP, only if this is the case will editing /etc/hosts help.
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Interesting comment. I have pinged 127.0.0.1 from the Linux box and that's OK but I get no reply from the Windoze box but the windoze box can see the linux IP address and resolve the Linux box (RedHAT) correctly. I will have another play later this week, my "computer room"is unavailable at the moment while a plumber replaces a radiator not that that is going to fix my problem:)
That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The Atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.
- Admiral William Leahy
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No kidtangerine it ain't the firewall.The machine I converted to Linux was a Windows XP box which worked perfectly well on a crossover cable and I deliberately used the same IP address etc.for the "new" Linux box.
That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The Atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives.
- Admiral William Leahy
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If you are saying you had a linux server, which was seen fine with a XP workstation, but the server couldn't see the XP machine or ping it?
If so im positive from your reply it's the windows firewall enabled on the local area connection. you proved me right by saying you put linux on it with same IP and it worked. That means it wasn't a hardware issue, it had to be software. You either had one of those awful norton internet ripoffs enabled, or the windows firewall that came with SP2 which im sure you ran windows updates on it, by default you are getting that firewall. It allows most traffic out fine, but blocks smb access in, that's the protocol that allows windows boxes to see a samba server and vice versa, and icmp, ping, by default. Be honest, did you ever actually go into control panel and see if the firewall was turned on?Stupidest People Alive can be found here.
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"...saying you put linux on it with same IP and it worked..."
No, he is saying that it worked fine with an XP install, he then wiped that and installed linux on that machine configured with the same IP which doesn't work. Unless he has changed something on the target windoze machine it can't be an XP firewall in the way.
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