[vox-tech] newbie

[ME]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Kevin Dawson wrote:
> The acute issue is how to connect a Windows 98 laptop to the LINUX box.
> Today, I installed Redhat 7.1 and SAMBA. Consequently, the LINUX machine
> can talk to itself via SAMBA but the Windows laptop doesn't see it
> through the network (network == a patch-cable connecting the two NICs).
> Any help is appreciated.

>From the windows machine can you ping the IP address of the linux box?
>From the linux box can you ping the IP addres of the windows box?

then

Can you http, telnet or ssh from the windows box to the linux box

If you can do the above then we can examine confiuguration of Samba and
Linux and the windows machine.

-ME

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