Re: [SLUG] RH 7.1, Win 98, and Samba

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Sun Aug 19 2001 - 16:57:35 EDT


On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 03:38:00PM -0400, SOTL wrote:

> <Snip>
> >
> > You _are_ able to ping numerically, which means your connection is fine
> > and so on. The problem is that you do not have an entry in the LMHOSTS
> > file in Windows for that machine.
>

<snip>

> I can ping both from the win box machines by the following addresses:
> lan_sys_opt 192.168.1.1
> lan_user 192.168.1.2
> Then I tried names:
> ping lan_user
> and I observed that it did not ping 192.168.1.2 but did ping 169.254.59.246
> ping lan_sys_opt
> the computer tries to dial out into the internet. If you cancel that it says
> address not found.

I haven't followed this closely, but I assume that the machine that ends
up "pinging" the 169* address is the Windows machine? Actually, I'll
bet it's not actually pinging that address, but looking to that address
for name resolution. You have to fiddle with Windows to make this stop,
but I can't recall how. It's something like either disabling Dial-Up
Networking, or changing the nameserver to the local machine. Something
like that.

Paul



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