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Kourosh wrote: | How are you assigning IP addresses? If you are doing it manually, make | sure that you are giving the Win98 machine a valid IP on the same subnet | as the Debian machine. If the Win98 machine is set to dhcp then unless | the Debian machine is a dhcp server, the Win98 machine will set it's IP | to something in the 169. range. | | Hope that helps.
Attached /etc/network/interfaces.
I've tried two scenarios on the W98 machine.
1. The network address within adapter properties is 192.168.1.2, within TCP/IP properties I've set the IP address to (again) 192.168.1.2, subnet mask of 255.255.255.0. Gateway of 192.168.1.1. DNS hostname as sig, domain as WORKGROUP, WINS config set to search for 192.168.1.1 and DNS server to search for 192.168.1.1. Screenshot of winipcfg at
http://members.lycos.co.uk/tsilatnem/winipcfg2.jpg
2. No network address, IP address or subnet mask specified. Gateway of 192.168.1.1. Screenshot of winipcfg at
http://members.lycos.co.uk/tsilatnem/winipcfg.jpg
Neither of these scenarios yields packet receipt on pinging.
How would I tell if the W98 machine is set to dhcp? My understanding is that setting the network address prevents dhcp from being used.
Don't you hate that OS for networking!
Thanks aplenty.
Tim
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# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)
# The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.1 network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
