Ping windows machine

[Juan Pablo]

I have two computers, one that only uses Linux (mine) and my brother's (dual boot) I want to network them (done with the linux part!) but I can't ping the second computer while it is on Windows (but the Windows machine can ping my computer)

but If I reboot the second machine in Linux the machines can ping each other

Thanks in Advance!

[dilbert]

No clue. But what says "ipconfig" on Windows?

[Roxoff]

No clue. But what says "ipconfig" on Windows?

And check the windows firewall setting - make sure that ICMP isn't blocked and responses are not turned off.

[Juan Pablo]

The firewall was disabled during the tests, I think the windows machine have a different broadcast address to the Linux machine but no idea on how to change it in Windows.

[Roxoff]

If they have a different broadcast address, then they should have a different subnet mask. If the IP address after logical-AND with the subnet mask is the same, then the broadcast address is the same.

So the only thing I can really suggest here is to check that the subnet masks are set the same on Linux and Windows.

[amri_singh]

hello

To connect linux and windows m/cs

check they are configured in same domain say
192.168.1.4 and 192.168.1.5

use....... system-config-network
enter ip address 192.168.1.5
enter subnet mask 255.255.255.0

now start services..........

service network start
check etho status
ifconfig etho,
make it up
ifconfig etho up

no need to restart the linux m/c
restart network services,check status

service network status

check out pls.........

[Juan Pablo]

Both computers are in the same domain 172.16.40.210 and 172.16.40.212 and subnet of 255.255.255.248

[amri_singh]

hello friends
if systems maintain same domain n subnet mask then problem may be starting services

check

service network status
service network start

ifconfig etho ( ip address) up netmask 255.255.255.248

u can check the script file in /etc/sysconfig/..../networking/ifconfig-etho file

changes r reflected or not??????

[ppmoore]

I have two computers, one that only uses Linux (mine) and my brother's (dual boot) I want to network them (done with the linux part!) but I can't ping the second computer while it is on Windows (but the Windows machine can ping my computer)

but If I reboot the second machine in Linux the machines can ping each other

Thanks in Advance!

You didn't state if you were trying to ping the other machine using its IP address or hostname. Hostname resolution in a mixed windows/linux environment is tricky.

[Roxoff]

You didn't state if you were trying to ping the other machine using its IP address or hostname. Hostname resolution in a mixed windows/linux environment is tricky.

I hate to disagree with anyone, but really it isn't that tricky. DNS server configuration is usually straightforward, and my experience of modern distros is that they come already configured in their own chroot jail. All you have to do is tell it the domain name and host addresses you want it to provide.

And if all this fails, you can also fall back on the hosts file - which will copy nicely between windows and linux. In Linux it is /etc/hosts, in Windows it's C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.