you'll probably find that host 2 does not accept icmp input but allows output thus it can ping but cannot be pinged back. I remeber the workgroup name is assigned in /etc/smb.conf because that is netbios and not these other things. On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Thomas Beer wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to ping one host from another. > If I ping host 1 from host 2 there is no problem. > But the othjer way it won't work. Additionally, > the host I'm trying to ping is the server and > I can't assign the Workgroup name for the domain > he should serve. > > Any suggestions ? > > Thanks Tom > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
