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My setup is a HP Vectra (400Mhz) dual-boot system running Linux 7.3
and Win98SE with a NetGear NIC installed.  My other box is a Dell
Pentium (200 MHz) which can also dual-boot between RH 7.3 and Win98SE,
and which has a LinkSys NIC installed.  I changed the NIC in the HP
box because RH7.3 did not recognize it, though it recognized it fine
on the Dell!

When both systems are in Win98 mode, and the NetBeui drivers are
installed, networking is a breeze.  When both systems are running
Linux, I can also network fine.  However, I just can't seem to get a
Win98 box to "ping" a Linux box!  I have ensured that the passwords
and accounts are the same on both systems.  The /ect/hosts file on the
Linux box matches the \Windows\lmhosts file perfectly.  Both systems
have an identical workgroup name.  I made sure that NetBeui is not
installed on the Win98 box when pinging (only TCP/IP installed on both
systems).  But is just does not work.

This is my third attempt to get the system to work, having tried an
previous version of RedHat and Corel Linux.  Both failed at the
networking phase.  Unfortunately, networking is critical because my
laser printer is connect to the other Win98 box (which belongs to
someone else) and I need it to print.

Is there some information that I am missing but which should be posted
to answer this question?

Would it be of any help to try other Linux distributions?  I simply
cannot stop using Win98 because my partner is solely depended upon it.

Any help you may have come across would be greatly appreciated.

What are the ip addresses on each box, including the network mask?
(login as root and do "/sbin/ifconfig" to see everything)

Make sure that things are what you think they need to be (including the
network mask!). If the addresses aren't right then you need to
reconfigure an interface.

Can you ping your loopback interface ("ping 127.0.0.1")? If not,
something is wrong with your networking stack setup.

Can you ping the other machine by ip address rather than name? If so,
then something is wrong with your hosts file.

--  Dave

Quote:> I am having a terrible problem trying to network between Win98SE and
> RH 7.3, and am about to give up forever!

> My setup is a HP Vectra (400Mhz) dual-boot system running Linux 7.3
> and Win98SE with a NetGear NIC installed.  My other box is a Dell
> Pentium (200 MHz) which can also dual-boot between RH 7.3 and Win98SE,
> and which has a LinkSys NIC installed.  I changed the NIC in the HP
> box because RH7.3 did not recognize it, though it recognized it fine
> on the Dell!

> When both systems are in Win98 mode, and the NetBeui drivers are
> installed, networking is a breeze.  When both systems are running
> Linux, I can also network fine.  However, I just can't seem to get a
> Win98 box to "ping" a Linux box!  I have ensured that the passwords
> and accounts are the same on both systems.  The /ect/hosts file on the
> Linux box matches the \Windows\lmhosts file perfectly.  Both systems
> have an identical workgroup name.  I made sure that NetBeui is not
> installed on the Win98 box when pinging (only TCP/IP installed on both
> systems).  But is just does not work.

> This is my third attempt to get the system to work, having tried an
> previous version of RedHat and Corel Linux.  Both failed at the
> networking phase.  Unfortunately, networking is critical because my
> laser printer is connect to the other Win98 box (which belongs to
> someone else) and I need it to print.

> Is there some information that I am missing but which should be posted
> to answer this question?

> Would it be of any help to try other Linux distributions?  I simply
> cannot stop using Win98 because my partner is solely depended upon it.

> Any help you may have come across would be greatly appreciated.

Jon

You have given lots of infomation but most of it is irrelevant to being able
to ping a machine.

Question: Do you have TCP/IP installed on the Win98 machine with an IP
Address set up.

Are you pinging a machine name or IP address?

Rick.

Quote:> I am having a terrible problem trying to network between Win98SE and
> RH 7.3, and am about to give up forever!

> My setup is a HP Vectra (400Mhz) dual-boot system running Linux 7.3
> and Win98SE with a NetGear NIC installed.  My other box is a Dell
> Pentium (200 MHz) which can also dual-boot between RH 7.3 and Win98SE,
> and which has a LinkSys NIC installed.  I changed the NIC in the HP
> box because RH7.3 did not recognize it, though it recognized it fine
> on the Dell!

> When both systems are in Win98 mode, and the NetBeui drivers are
> installed, networking is a breeze.  When both systems are running
> Linux, I can also network fine.  However, I just can't seem to get a
> Win98 box to "ping" a Linux box!  I have ensured that the passwords
> and accounts are the same on both systems.  The /ect/hosts file on the
> Linux box matches the \Windows\lmhosts file perfectly.  Both systems
> have an identical workgroup name.  I made sure that NetBeui is not
> installed on the Win98 box when pinging (only TCP/IP installed on both
> systems).  But is just does not work.

> This is my third attempt to get the system to work, having tried an
> previous version of RedHat and Corel Linux.  Both failed at the
> networking phase.  Unfortunately, networking is critical because my
> laser printer is connect to the other Win98 box (which belongs to
> someone else) and I need it to print.

> Is there some information that I am missing but which should be posted
> to answer this question?

> Would it be of any help to try other Linux distributions?  I simply
> cannot stop using Win98 because my partner is solely depended upon it.

> Any help you may have come across would be greatly appreciated.

I can ping locally on either machine, using the IP numbers.  I cannot
ping between the two boxes (one in Win98 mode and the other in Linux
mode) using either IP number or the aliases.

Just to clarify, when trying to ping between Win98 and Linux, I have
removed the NetBEUI driver from the Win98 box, and have enabled the
TCP/IP driver for my NIC.  I had previously read that having NetBEUI
installed can interfere with networking between Win98 and Linux.

When both boxes are running Linux, I can ping back and forth using
either IP address or aliases.  When both boxes are running Win98 (and
with NetBEUI re-installed on both) I can ping back and forth using IP
numbers and aliases.

Does this help?  Can you give me any insight as to what is going
wrong?  Thank you again.

Your win and linux boxes are on different subnets, change one of you IP's to
be in the same subnet as the other machine and you will be ok.
e.g. change your windows box from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.1.1 or your linux
box from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.0.2 Or just change your subnet mask on both
boxes to 255.255.0.0. I would just change the IP :-)

Rick