Windows Network Neighborhood Trouble

[JacKDynne]

Quote:

JackDynne had the clue when he said to remove IPX/SPX

Microsoft and Novell protocols have never been the best of buddies

Glad it worked out for ya Now let's get cookin on Indy's problem

**NOTE: Indy, I have replicated the last part of this thread (that pertains to your specific problem) to the Alternative OS Support forum looking for a good response from our gurus there

/JD

[craftyc]

ND4SPD, make sure your firewalls aren't getting in the way. I had a similar problem also when trying to configure my Samba Network.

To configure your Windows PCs for networking maybe this site will help you. /http://www.homenethelp.com/home-network.asp

Also, this may help to configure Samba. /http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/desktop.xml#doc_chap7
It is Gentoo specific, however it shouldn't be too hard to translate the ideas across.

[Nd4Spd]

Thanks man. Moved part of the post in the other forum. Will look for replies there.

Indy

[Seducer]

Nd4Spd....i tried this one....one thing i notice is that your username defined in linux box should be the same in the your MS box.

hope this works

[rikytik]

JacKDynne, your post is particularly helpful. But, I'm still floundering. I've got 3 xp and 2 Linux boxes on the LAN, No server, hooked to a 4 port Linksys wireless router. (4 hardwired, one wireless). After taking out the IPX/SPX protocol, as you suggested and running Network wizard--ALL SYSTEMS GO. When I rebooted the xp boxes could no longer talk--and you warned of this. I don't yet understand WINS nor Imhost files. I did reinstall IPX/SPX and finally found the tab (not easy) where you can change the biinding order. Now the xp boxes talk. The 2 Linux boxes talk ok and one of the xp boxes talks with the Linux's. Confusing. Guess I gotta figure out what WINS is and what Imhost is and if they apply to my particular setup.

You got me on the right track. Thanks.

[JacKDynne]

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When I rebooted the xp boxes could no longer talk

What do you mean by talk? Try this:

Goto box 1 and type (from a command line as stated above) ipconfig /all Take note of the ip address and the default gateway (that should be your router's ip address)

Goto box 2 and repeat the steps for box one. Now try pinging (as mentioned in prior posts) the ip address of the first box. Do you get replies back? If so, then they can talk

Wins stands for windows internet name service (I think) and basically is a dynamic way of resolving netbios names (the computer name) to an ip address (Lmhosts file is a static mapping which does the same thing except you have to manually edit it)

If you just want to be able to access files on each system, and they can talk as mentioned above, AND I am correct in assuming that you have admin accounts on all the boxes and the password and account names are the same (phew, I got that all out in one breath) then you can just map to the hidden share on each box (all windows have a hidden administrative share, which is the drive letter with a $ shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, don't tell anyone )

So if you wanted to map to box 1 with an ip address of 192.168.1.1 you can right click on network neighborhood, select: map network drive, then type in the ip address (full UNC path) followed by the hidden share name or just a plain old share name: \\192.168.1.1\c$ or just \\192.168.1.1\sharename
Note: You can also type from a command line net use /? to see the command line options to do the same thing

Let us know how this works out; Hope this helps some

Oh yeah, and if you are not connecting to a Novell server, then I would just get rid of IPX/SPX, there is really no need for it and it might be causing some conflicts

/JD

[JacKDynne]

*bump*

Any luck rikytik?

/JD

[rikytik]

Sorry, been so preoccupied I didn't look at this thread. I didn't try the procedure just above, but will early tomorrow a.m.

Meanwhile, if I have IPX/SPX installed the xp boxes work wondrfully on the LAN, but the Linux boxes won't communicate with them.

Appreciate your sticking with me on this.

[rikytik]

Making headway. Took IPX/SPX out of the xp boxes. All pings work--so the xp boxes are "talking". As it sits everything seems to be working. Seems to me I was here once before and everything fell flat after I rebooted everything.

One thing. Maybe you are right in mentioning the firewall software. I thought I had disabled them on each machine in the past. There is a possibility I was wrong about that.

So, I'll give it a little time. Sure appreciate your tips JacKDynne.

[JacKDynne]

No problem rikytik

Hope it all works out

/JD