On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:48:45PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
| > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 07:37:07PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
| > | Sorry for the non-linux question, but I haven't found an answer
| > | elsewhere.
| > |
| > | I have a functioning network of two Debian boxes, bravo (10.0.0.2) and
| >
| > Two Debian boxes ... sounds like linux to me <wink>
|
| Well, they aren't giving me any trouble. :)
Of course not :-).
| > | I am trying to add to this network my fiancee's Win98 machine, named
| >
| > Ooh, time for some "fun" ;-).
|
| "Fun" is relative. See following double-quoted paragraph.
Yes, that's why it was in quotes.
| > Can the 'doze box ping itself? By localhost or 127.0.0.1? By it's
| > external IP address?
|
| Automatically assigning an IP via DHCP:
|
| "ping localhost": succesfully pings 127.0.0.1
| "ping gow": succesfully pings 10.0.0.3
| "ping 10.0.0.3": ditto
At least it can ping itself.
| "ping peon": "Unknown host peon." (DNS is disabled anyway)
Right, expected.
| "ping 10.0.0.1": "Request timed out."
Can the debian boxen ping it?
| Statically configured IP:
|
| "ping localhost": succesfully pings 127.0.0.1
| "ping gow": succesfully pings 10.0.0.3
| "ping peon": "Unknown host peon." (DNS is disabled anyway)
| "ping 10.0.0.1": "Request timed out."
Same thing -- not a problem with the DHCP then. Probably a good idea
to dump it now since it isn't giving you anything.
| Here's a tcpdump | grep gow with the static IP, watching gow boot up.
|
| 09:53:40.859140 arp who-has gow.study tell gow.study
| 09:53:41.632729 gow.study.netbios-ns > 10.0.0.255.netbios-ns:
| [2 more of these]
| 09:53:41.967426 gow.study > 224.0.0.2: icmp: router solicitation
| 09:53:42.381266 gow.study.netbios-ns > 10.0.0.255.netbios-ns:
| [five more of these]
|
| and after 9:53:43, nothing. Do your winboxen perform this router
| solicitation? Is it also on this crazy address?
I'll have to check my stuff -- I haven't used tcpdump yet. I do know
that netbios is another name for "windows networking via smb, aka
samba", or something like that. Netbios-ns is windows' name service
and is provided by nmbd in the 'samba' package. Netbios-<something
else I don't remember at the moment> is the actual samba stuff
provided by smbd in the samba package.
| > The biggest issue I had, once I had ipmasq installed, was the 'doze
| > boxes not cooperating with Samba.
|
| Oh, that's not good to hear. Maybe I won't need to set that up.
See my other reply with more details on this.
| > If you want more specifics on how I configured the doze systems I can
| > turn one on tomorrow and see what it says.
|
| This would be wonderful, thank you.
|
| > On the Debian systems I
| > use /etc/hosts to set names for the machines.
|
| 10:07 pts/0 $ grep study /etc/hosts
| 10.0.0.1 peon.study peon
| 10.0.0.2 bravo.study bravo
| 10.0.0.3 gow.study gow
This looks ok, but I'm not sure about the subdomain stuff (the
.study). I don't have any subdomain stuff on my home network.
| Thanks for the help.
No problem.
-D
PS. I'm in the lab working on an essay right now. I'll check my
network after I get home.
