I have a laptop running Mandrake 9.1, and was using a PCMCIA card with a dongle which appeared to be breaking down, and I thought that explained teh failure of Samba connection to a Win ME box.

A new PCMCIA card (no dongle) lights up, but I cannot ping the Windoze box, though it can ping the laptop.

ifconfig:
eth0
Link encap:ethernet HWaddr 00:1:60:5D:5D:CD
inet addr 192.168.0.2 Bcast 192.168.0.255 Mask 255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric :1
RX packets 26 errors :0 dropped:0 overuns:0 frame:0
TX packets :153
errors :0 dropped:0 overuns:0 frame:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes :16284 (15.9 Kb) TX Bytes 20337 (19.8 Kb)
Interrupt :9 base address :x1000

I can ping 127.0.0.1

Any thoughts, please?

Russellb

Unless you are using a crossover cable to connect the two directly, you would have to specify a gateway and be part of the same class C ip subnet. If you are on a router for both, the gateway would be the router ip.

Thanks Thoreau. I am using a hub, and all was working well until some drama at the time I added an XP machine for my wife (previously a Mac G3). Ishall look at setting a gateway and see if that helps.

Russellb

do you have a firewall type solution on the windows box? It might seem stupid but I ran into this when I was setting up my own laptop...I could ping the laptop from windows, but from the laptop, no ping.

I banged my head against the desk for a long while until I had a brainfart and realized that my zonealarm wasn't allowing pings to come in....I turned it off and lo and behold, I could ping the windows box.

Thanks tcaptain.
In my recent adventures, I had reinstalled ZoneAlarm, and I note (after your suggestion) that the default setting of LAN's being in the "trusted zone" has changed.

Stopping ZA allowed log-in and now I find that setting the LAN card to "trusted" rather than "Internet" level gives the same effect

Many thanks for encouraging me in the right direction

Russelll