[Wolves] The only Linux machine on a Windows network

Wayne Morris wayne at machx.co.uk
Thu May 6 16:08:17 BST 2004


On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 15:55, Adam Sweet wrote:
> Hi all, I wonder if anyone can help me. I got my boss
> to let me install a Linux machine to play with, so I
> now have a Morphix/Debian box at work.
> 
> Now, I can't get out of the network. That is, I can
> use Samba to connect to our servers and stuff and view
> our intranet, but I can't get out onto the internet.
> 
> It's picking up a DHCP lease ok from an NT4 server
> with the correct ip address, subnet mask and DNS
> servers, but no internet. ifconfig reports all of the
> right stuff for eth0.
> 
> I can ping our servers, but I can't ping Yahoo or
> anything external, I can't try a traceroute because
> its not installed and I don't have anything to install
> it from.
> 
> I tried to be clever and add our router as the default
> gateway, but I got the following error:
> 
> SIOCADDRT: Network unreachable
> 
> Can anyone tell me where to start looking, so I can
> impress everyone at work with how cool Linux is? I am
> happy to provide further info.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ad
> 
> =====

Silly question, but you used the routers internal LAN as the gateway?
Does the router need to be set to give permission for your box to
connect to the net? Not something like the router needs to qualify the
hostname of the linux box before accepting it?









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