ocalhoun
Its been a while since I've asked for help here to be sure, but something has finally stumped me.
So, I've finally gotten my Linux machine back operational after a hard drive and motherboard transplant, and now its time to get it into the network. That has proven troublesome though.
First of all, the physical topology of the network is very simple:
Vista Machine__Hub__Cable modem
Linux Machine_/
Both machines can connect to the internet just fine through the modem.
Both of them can ping each other when given the ip address, but neither can ping the other one when the host name is used. (For some reason, only 3/4 pings from Vista to Linux are successful... Pings in the other direction are perfect. This is strange, but I think it is an unrelated problem.)
File sharing is set up on Vista, and Samba is working on the Linux (OpenSuSE 11) machine. Both are set up to be part of the same workgroup. (Which for now probably means that there are two workgroups of the same name.) However, neither can discover the other one when browsing the network. (Though for some strange reason, the Vista machine shows another computer in the network... It has a random-letter like name that is not the name of the Linux machine, and trying to open this mystery computer only results in timeout errors. I'm almost suspecting that this might be the modem.)
All firewalls on both machines are disabled.
So, what's the missing link here? What am I forgetting that will allow it to work?
(And one final parting question, just out of curiosity... Could using a version of linux made before SATA came out with a SATA and IDE motherboard cause problems when trying to format IDE drives? Why?)
So, I've finally gotten my Linux machine back operational after a hard drive and motherboard transplant, and now its time to get it into the network. That has proven troublesome though.
First of all, the physical topology of the network is very simple:
Vista Machine__Hub__Cable modem
Linux Machine_/
Both machines can connect to the internet just fine through the modem.
Both of them can ping each other when given the ip address, but neither can ping the other one when the host name is used. (For some reason, only 3/4 pings from Vista to Linux are successful... Pings in the other direction are perfect. This is strange, but I think it is an unrelated problem.)
File sharing is set up on Vista, and Samba is working on the Linux (OpenSuSE 11) machine. Both are set up to be part of the same workgroup. (Which for now probably means that there are two workgroups of the same name.) However, neither can discover the other one when browsing the network. (Though for some strange reason, the Vista machine shows another computer in the network... It has a random-letter like name that is not the name of the Linux machine, and trying to open this mystery computer only results in timeout errors. I'm almost suspecting that this might be the modem.)
All firewalls on both machines are disabled.
So, what's the missing link here? What am I forgetting that will allow it to work?
(And one final parting question, just out of curiosity... Could using a version of linux made before SATA came out with a SATA and IDE motherboard cause problems when trying to format IDE drives? Why?)
