I have the same configuration with that in windows.
And also they cannot ping me successfully.

But in windows,all is ok!
Why?i donot understand.
Note:my ip is 172.30.4.?,and his is 172.30.3.?
subnet mask:255.255.248.0

have you got ipchains / iptables set up properly?what do you mean by in windows? your sever or internal machine? on trhe client you need to specify your gateway in /etc/sysconfig/network to be the modem connected machine's internal interface

When you want to ping another machine on your local network it will do with ping 192.168.0.1

Then you will ping this ip adres

If the machine name is PC1 and you give ping PC1

You proberly get no responce because it does not know its ip adres

in your /etc/hosts file you can point linux the right way by adding the line or lines for more pc's

192.168.0.1..........PC1
192.168.0.2..........PC2

Now linux knows wich name belongs to wich ipadres

Normally he will look at the DNS server

Thats why ping google.com will work because the DNS server knows the ipadres of google.com

You can set up your own DNS server for your internal network with BIND.
Then the line 192.168.bla.bla in the hosts file is not needed
Hope this helped

So i could not add other pc's ip and biosname into my /etc/hosts.

No you CAN add other pc's hostname and ip adressen in your /etc/hosts file if you want to ping or use there name you MUST add those lines in your /etc/hosts file

When you have a local dns you do not have to ad them in your /etc/hosts file because linux first ask the dns server for the ip adres for PC1

Then the dns server says somthing like PC1 has ip 192.168.0.1

You dont have a dns server for your local network only for the internet (the DNS server from your ISP)

If linux does not receive an answer from the DNS server then it will look in the /etc/hosts file..

so type this when you have not put the lines in the /etc/hosts file
ssh root@PC1

Now linux will try to make contact true ssh to PC1 it proberly will not work because the ipadres is unknown.
If you type
ssh root@192.168.0.1

Then there will be an answer (if the ssh deamon is active on PC1)

Add the line :
192.168.0.1..................PC1
to the /etc/hosts file

Then type:
ssh root@PC1

and the same thing happens with the command :
ssh root@192.168.0.1

You are just (linken) ip adresses with Names

Hope this is clear for you?