[SWLUG] networking nightmare

[Justin Mitchell]

On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 20:10, Rhys Sage wrote:
>      Windows 98 IP Configuration
>                   IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 169.254.72.239
>                   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0

>      Linux network settings
>                   Local IP address: 192.168.40.1
>                   Local subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
>      

Thats your problem right there.

The two machines have been given radically different IP addresses, so
they do not believe themselves to be on the same network.

btw. This isnt a linux specific problem, NT would have been just as
broken given these settings.

You need to change the IP addresses on all of your computers to be on
the same network. Seeing as the linux one is already on a standard
private network address, we can work from that. With that netmask,
computers are on the same network if they have the same first three
numbers. eg anything between 192.168.40.1 and 192.168.40.254

So, you could just change the windows machine to be on the fixed address
of 192.168.40.2 with the same netmask as the linux machine has.

You should then be able to ping between computers, and with luck the smb
file shares will work too.