[Gllug] Linux -> windows issues

[Matthew Cooke]

>
>   I may be wrong, but AFAIK setting the IP address on each individual
>machine does not automatically propagate on to the others. Your
>"traditional" networking is just SMB networking which uses the interface MAC
>addresses, not TCP/IP.
>   You need to run a DHCP server to allow automatic TCP/IP allocation, or
>have a real DNS server and then specify the numerical IP address of that
>server in the TCP/IP configuration of each box. The ideal would be a Linux
>box running BIND9 as a DNS server, with each individual box given the IP
>address of the server.
>
>  
>
Heh. My network is fine! It's a normal fully fledged TCP/IP network. 
There is DNS and DHCP, normal TCP/IP networking is running fine. I can 
ping every machine. The machines are all switched on at the mains too! I 
wasn't even aware SMB could run without TCP/IP, I suppose it can over 
netbui or something.

I'll try to see if I can find a rendevous/zeroconf mailing list. Someone 
must have it running on windows. I strongly suspect as the XP machines 
don't even detect Linux boxes when they broadcast their presence via 
zeroconf (which I know work as they discover each other) there must be 
something in windows telling it to ignore IGMP or multicast traffic. The 
strange thing is though I don't even see the traffic incoming on the XP 
machines. I'll double check the switches at the back end just to make 
double sure the linux boxes and windows boxes are all plugged into the 
same switch. Also I might try a linux boot CD and try some multicast 
using that  to make sure it isn't related to the network cards or 
hardware in the windows machines.

Cheers,
Matt.
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