Hello fellow Fedorians
I have managed to organize a notebook with which to work and am struggling to get my notebook running on our Windows Network. Please be patient I am a Linux fan and use it at home but a single PC environment. So I have managed to get the machine to pick a DHCP ip address, I have Samba running so I can see the machine from the network. But on the notebook itself, it only sees the localhost, does not see the rest of the network.
Please any pointers will be appreciated.
Many Thanks Denham
Denham Eva wrote:
I have managed to organize a notebook with which to work and am struggling to get my notebook running on our Windows Network. Please be patient I am a Linux fan and use it at home but a single PC environment. So I have managed to get the machine to pick a DHCP ip address, I have Samba running so I can see the machine from the network. But on the notebook itself, it only sees the localhost, does not see the rest of the network.
These statements appear to be inconsistent; if another machine on the network can "see" your notebook, your notebook *must* be able to send packets to the network and not just localhost.
What are you trying to do with your notebook that you cannot do?
Paul.
Paul Howarth mi ha scritto / wrote to me il / on 09/02/2005 11.39:
Denham Eva wrote:
I have managed to organize a notebook with which to work and am struggling to get my notebook running on our Windows Network. Please be patient I am a Linux fan and use it at home but a single PC environment. So I have managed to get the machine to pick a DHCP ip address, I have Samba running so I can see the machine from the network. But on the notebook itself, it only sees the localhost, does not see the rest of the network.
These statements appear to be inconsistent; if another machine on the network can "see" your notebook, your notebook *must* be able to send packets to the network and not just localhost.
What are you trying to do with your notebook that you cannot do?
Paul.
Paul,
it is not so inconsistent. If I use the Network server from Linux, sometimes it freezes with a white windos, sometimes I get the list of the Windows PC's, sometimes I get the list of shares, but when I click no way to see the list of files....and I can mount a Windows share only if defined by TCP/IP and not by Windows name. Something has gone wrong between FC2 and FC3: FC2 was working fine
Tnx
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:26 +0200, Denham Eva wrote:
So I have managed to get the machine to pick a DHCP ip address, I have Samba running so I can see the machine from the network. But on the notebook itself, it only sees the localhost, does not see the rest of the network.
Please be more specific about the problem. What does "does not see the network" mean? What have you tried and what steps are you following to see the problem?
Try opening a Nautilus browser window (for example, by right-clicking on the "Computers" icon on your desktop and selecting "Browse") and type smb:/// into the "Go To:" window. What do you swee?
Cheers,
Rodolfo J. Paiz mi ha scritto / wrote to me il / on 09/02/2005 17.23:
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:26 +0200, Denham Eva wrote:
So I have managed to get the machine to pick a DHCP ip address, I have Samba running so I can see the machine from the network. But on the notebook itself, it only sees the localhost, does not see the rest of the network.
Please be more specific about the problem. What does "does not see the network" mean? What have you tried and what steps are you following to see the problem?
Try opening a Nautilus browser window (for example, by right-clicking on the "Computers" icon on your desktop and selecting "Browse") and type smb:/// into the "Go To:" window. What do you swee?
Cheers,
if i digit smb:/// sometimes I see my workgroup, but it is hard to further If I digit smb://192.168.0.5/ I connect immediately to the machine and her folders If I digit smb://maxdata/ (that is same machine..) I can't connect to her
Where is the trick??
Tnx
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