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I do have the named deamon running, but its probably not configured right.

But I know the windows box has picked up its DHCP ip address of 192.168.0.4 
correctly cause its not set up in windows anywhere and windows gets a 
response when it pings its self on 192.168.0.4

Maybe I am going about this all wrong though as all I really want is for 
Linux to communicate with the windows boxes through Samba and for the Windows 
boxes to be able to communicate fine with themselves when the Linux box is 
turned off.  I don't really mind if they use dynamic or static IP addresses 
just that they talk to each other :)

Any ideas ?

Thanks

Alan


On Sunday 31 March 2002 7:52 pm, you wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 20:41, Alan Wilson wrote:
> > ping -n 192.168.0.1 seems to work fine on the SuSE machine.
>
> It will do; you're only testing the local machine, not the network ;)
>
> I mean, try pinging a workstation from the SuSE machine. If they have
> managed to use the DHCP server to get correct addresses (they wouldn't
> have 192.168.* addresses if they hadn't contacted the server) then that
> means the network works.
>
> Alternatively, just do a normal ping but just leave it. Don't quit out
> immediately - leave it for up to a minute. It may begin working
> suddenly, which again points to a name resolution problem.
>
> > I'm not sure what "a named" is.
>
> Name resolution daemon ;)
>
> A DNS server, in other words!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
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