I have a Debian<-->NTsp3 network working. I am certianly no expert, but I will be glad to work with you on this.
I assume you have tcp/ip installed on the NT machine. It doesnt come that way out of the box. I think you have to install tcp/ip to even assign an ip address. Make sure you reran SP3 after installing tcp/ip from the NT cd. My Debian box is set up with route add -net, no gateway, the same as yours. The NT box has the Debian box's address in as a gateway, but I dont know if that makes any difference. Somebody told me that NT quits listening after not hearing any traffic for a while. Try rebooting the NT box after setting the route on the Debian box. You dont need samba just to transfer files or print, if the Debian box is hosting the printer. NT does ftp out of the box (assuming you can get the network up of course). NT can print to a Debian box using the "lpr" method. Mike On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 12:06:49PM -0500, Tomt wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Question for anyone who knows much about networking under Debian. > > I have two computer one is running Debian Linux. Kernel 2.0.29 and the > other is running Windows Nt Workstation Sp3. Now heres what I'm trying to > get done is the two machines to connect up and let the debian download > stuff off the Nt machine(I'm in the process of replacing the NT machine and > need to do some data transfer.) I've already figured out that I need > samba, and have it installed but it doesn't work. So I was reading through > some of the FAQs when it said to check and see if I can ping the other > machine, so I try that. Both machines CANNOT get any response when they > ping each other, I know the NT machine works because I can ping another > Windows machine on the network. I get what looks like an activity light on > the hub everytime I try something like ping from either machine. But > machines can ping themselves. > > Heres the setup > Windows NT machine - ip address 192.168.1.2 subnet 255.255.255.0 no gateway > defined > Debian Linux machine - ip address 192.168.1.1 subnet 255.255.255.0 no > gateway defined > > Debian Machine is running a 3com 3c509b(Very close to the best isa Nic I've > ever used.) > > I've narrowed my problem down to have to do something with the debian > routing setup. > > Heres route and ifconfig information > > route -n output > ____________________________________________________________________________ > __________________ > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface > 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 2 lo > ____________________________________________________________________________ > __________________ > > This is the way the output appears after login. I've been manually adding > this line > 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 1 eth0 > By typing > route add -net 192.168.1.0 eth0 > (I do know that this can be done through a script at startup, but I want to > get it working correctly before doing that.) > > ifconfig > ____________________________________________________________________________ > __________________ > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 > RX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > > eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:AF:72:43:7C > inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:215 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > TX packets:8476 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300 > ____________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________ > Local Loopback is working because I ping myself or 127.0.0.1 and I get a > response. > > I have tcpdump installed(very handle util.) And when I try to ping I get a > message about icmp: echo Request but thats it. > > Like I said I'm very sure this has something to do with my routing table, > but everything I've read or seen about the routing table confuses me more. > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong > > Do I have to have a default gateway? And what is that used for? A router?(I > don't have one if so) > > Thanks in advance > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
