Home Network Connections

[Tom Lombardo]

David,

Thank you so much for your time!

The firewall feature on XP was already disabled.  Here are the settings:

DESKTOP
IP Address 192.168.2.2
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway 192.168.2.1
DHCP Server 192.168.2.1
DNS Server 192.168.2.1

Router
IP Address 192.168.2.1
Subnet Mask - I couldn't find this listed anywhere

Thinking I understood where you are going with this, I tried re-setting 
everything on the laptop to match these numbers, but it still didn't 
work (although I don't know what I'm doing so I may have missed 
something).  I also tried leaving everything on "auto" so it would 
detect settings on its own, but that didn't work either.

I really appreciate your help!


David A. Bandel wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:35:51 -0700
> Tom Lombardo <tlombardo at caserdoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I am trying to get my laptop, running RedHat Linux 8, to connect to my
>>desktop, running Windows XP, both of which are attached to my Dell
>>router.  The desktop is attached with a cable, and the laptop is 
>>connected with a wireless card.
> 
> 
> Please tell us the IP/netmask of each interface (router and systems)
> 
> 
>>I can ping the router from my laptop just fine, and I can connect to
>>the Internet as well (thanks to Fourmun, who replied to an earlier
>>post to this excellent newsgroup). 
> 
> 
> Note:  XP has a "firewall" "feature" you may need to disable.  Sometimes
> XP outsmarts itself.
> 
> 
>>But I can't get the laptop to connect to the desktop so I can back up
>>files and use the printer.  I am using KDE and Konqueror, and I've
>>gone through the LISa set-up.  The network's name is "earthfirst" and
>>the router's name is "my.router" and the desktop's name is "DESKTOP". 
>>When I type in "lan://earthfirst" or "lan://my.router" or
>>"lan://DESKTOP" in Konqueror or in the terminal window command line,
>>the laptop can't connect.  I mention all of this becuase I think it is
>>relevant.
> 
> 
> Let's get TCP working first.  NetBEUI is braindead and needs help, but
> won't work at all if the TCP/IP stack/routing is hosed.
> 
> 
>>Also, the "route" command does not work in my Linux terminal window,
>>so I can't check to see what the laptop sees. When I type "route man"
>>in the terminal I get the manual page for "route", but when I try to
>>run the "route" command I get a "bash: route: command not found"
>>error.  This has happened to me before, where a command will show up
>>in the manual but it won't run when I try to use it.  That seems weird
>>to me.
> 
> 
> Try running it as root or using a full path /sbin/route -n
> 
> 
>>If you have any suggestions as to how I can get my laptop to write
>>files on the desktop and use the printer, I would be very grateful.
>>
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> 
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel