Hello,
What level of skill is lower than newbie? Thats me! so thanks for any help offered! I am setting up a demo system with VMWare and my Microsoft OS VMware images have complete conectivity. I can't ping to or from my my Linux serer? On the Linux server, I can ping my Linux server address, I can ping 127.0.0.1 but I can't ping a workstation configure to be in the same private network. The same goes for the MS workstation, I can ping the loop back IP address 127.0.0.1 and the Workstation IP address but not the Linux server. I get the host desination unreachable. I run show network eth0 and get correct info,(I think it's correct anyway) The ehernet drivers loaded. I am at a knowledge impass!
The goal is to get Internet Exployer to browse an Application on the Linux Server but as connectivity is the first layer to trouble shoot. If I can't ping it I can't Browse it! Any ideas or other Linux commands to run or test for connectivity? Again thanks!

It would be most helpful to tell us what distribution of linux you are using.
Start out by trying '/sbin/ifconfig'. If it shows an IP assigned to your 'eth0' interface, then you probably have a cabling issue. Otherwise, if your distro is something Redhat-ish, try, as root, '/sbin/ifup eth0'. If that still doesn't work, get some details about your ethernet hardware, and report back here with the output from 'lsmod'.

--- rod.

Hello,
Thanks Rod!

The Issue was a VMware issue. I had the wrong VMnet number set on the Linux image so naturally there was no connectivity but everything looked fine!
I will try both of those'/sbin/ifconfig' '/sbin/ifup eth0' to build on my postage stamp of Linux knowledge and understanding!
I believe it is "Mandrake" if that is even a flavor of Linux.

Anyway thanks for the information and directions!

-John