Thank you kirk. I successfully pinged my workstation and the others using their IP addresses but i couldn't ping them by name. Truth is i donot know how to use or install the SAMBA client. Thank you. Mosh. (daft red hat user) --- Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net> wrote: > Without more detail, there we can't give much > detail. But I would start > with checking TCP/IP connectivity. > > Can you ping another workstation on the same subnet > (use the ip address)? > > Can you ping your own workstation? > > If both of the above work, try pinging by name. > > There are probably four settings all of which have > to be correct to > operate in a typical NT environment. The IP address, > the subnet mask, the > WINS servers, and the DNS servers. > > If you can ping other stations fine, but not access > files, the next place > to look is the SAMBA client. But start with the most > basic first. If you > can't ping, you are not connected correctly. > > -- > Kirk Wood > Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > ------------------ > > Seek simplicity -- and distrust it. > Alfred North Whitehead > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail ? Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
