Re: linux box on XP home network

From: Lynn R. Ziegler (lziegler_at_cs.csbsju.edu)
Date: 09/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:38:51 -0500

I have a similar setup with exactly the same problem. The problem,
however, is with Mandrake's default setup. My LAN consists of a cable
modem/router with 5 machines - 3 windows, 1 red hat linux, and one which
can boot to windows 2000 or red hat 9, or mandrake 10.0. The red hat
machine or the triple boot machine in red hat mode have no trouble with
the SAMBA connections. The mandrake machine cannot find any of those
machines or ping them, even though it used DHCP to find its internet
connection & THAT WORKS FINE. A hint, however. When I try to use the
printer configuration tool under drakconf to set up a printer, the
wizard shows a message that says: "WARNING: No local network connection
active, remote printers can neither be connected or detected!" And, as
advertised, the wizard fails to connect to the same SAMBA printer that
the red hat on the same machine finds easily.

Thus, I suspect the problem is that there is no local network turned on
and I cannot figure out how to do that. Also, the Mandrake system cannot
ping any of the other machines on the LAN (unlike the Red Hat systems
which can ping anything except the Mandrake system - which I turned off
incoming pinging on). Anyone have a solution? How do I turn on a local
network? 

-- 
Lynn R. Ziegler         Email Address: lziegler@csbsju.edu

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