Baby steps... ...I'll get there... James Newton mailto:jamesnewton@geocities.com 1-619-652-0593 phone ----- Original Message ----- From: Damon Hopkins To: Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 00:01 Subject: Re: [OT]:Linix help for a Windows Networker? > James Michael Newton wrote: > > > > Well, I hate to admit this, but after god knows how many Windows and Novell > > networks that I've set up and / or administered, I can't seem to get Red Hat > > 6.1 to talk on the network to my two windows computers (which work just fine > > thank you, so it must be Linux and not me, right? ) > > > > I've been trying to use the graphical network setup in the control panel > > (since I'm a GUI Guy although the DOS Command line is where I started and I > > know that well and I've had plenty of time in the Novell config program) but > > now suddenly, when I type startx, nothing starts. it just sits there forever > > and then returns me to a prompt when I hit ctrl-c. no error messages. Any > > ideas on how to get that back would be greatly appreciated. > > > > I have a Windows PC with two TCP/IP stacks configured (one is the IP address > > assigned by the cable modem service 24.15.132.183 subnet mask > > 255.255.255.128 Gateway 24.15.132.129 domain escnd1.sdca.home.com Host > > massmind and the other is 192.168.0.1 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 no gateway > > domain escnd1.sdca.home.com host massmind) and I'm running Proxy Plus to > > serve the other Windows machine which is 192.168.0.2 and has its gateway > > address set to 192.168.0.1 with internet settings in the control panel set > > to use a proxy server at 192.168.0.1:4480 for all access. That works fine. > > > > The Linux box is 192.168.0.3 subnet mask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 > > broadcast 192.168.0.254 and default gateway 192.168.0.1 (the proxy server) > > > > as per > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO-5.html > > it appears that > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network calls > > /etc/sysconfig/network which is: > > NETWORKING=yes > > FORWARD_IPV4="yes" > > HOSTNAME=nix.massmind.org > > GATEWAY="192.168.0.1" > > GATEWAYDEV=eth0 > > IPX="yes" > > IPXINTERNALNETNUM="0" > > IPXINTERNALNODENUM="0" > > IPXAUTOPRIMARY="on" > > IPXAUTOFRAME="on" > > but after that I just get lost so I don't understand why but > > route shows me > > Destination Gateway Genmask flags Metric Ref Use Iface > > 192.168.0.3 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 > > 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 > > 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo > > > > default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 > > > > I can ping 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.3 as expected. > > > > I can ping 192.168.0.1 and 24.15.132.183 (the two TCP/IP stacks on the main Windows server) although they respond twice for every one ping (a "DUP" shows up after the second one.) > > > > I can't ping 192.168.0.2 or any known good ip addresses out on the internet. No even the cable modem gateway at 24.15.132.129. > > > > Netscape couldn't http anything either, including 24.15.132.183 which is running an http server or 24.15.132.129 or 240.210.50.240 which all work from the windows machine (both of them). Of course I can't get to it anymore since, remember, x-windows will not start anymore.... I really don't know what I did. > > > > Any help appreciated... > > > > James Newton > > mailto:jamesnewton@geocities.com > > 1-619-652-0593 phone > > maybe try going the other way and putting the cable modem on the linux > box > my brother is running FreeBSD and has 4 computers setup at home all > through his 1 cable modem connected to his FreeBSD box. > > Damon Hopkins