I am using Wingate 2.1 as my proxy. All of my machines have IP addresses in
the reserved range 192.168.0.* and a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 .
The proxy machine is 192.168.0.1. The Linux machine is 192.168.0.2, and the
other windows machine is 192.168.0.3.
If the linux box is booted in windows, everything works fine (i.e. the
network, and the internet connection).
If any other info about the proxy is required, don't hesitate to ask ;) .

Yes, I cannot ping other machines on the network (i.e. from the linux
machine to either windows machine, and vice-versa. Neither way works.). I
suspect that I missed something when setting up the network (TCP/IP
perhaps?), but I can't figure out what or where to look for it (I checked
netcfg, linuxconf, and control-panel...).

If my memory serves me right, Wingate doesn't support samba, so the internet
threat should not be a problem.
It would be nice to have the capability to share files, and directories
between windows and linux on the internal network. I already have some files
on my windows client that I would like to copy over to the linux machine via
the network. I am going to look for the Samba how-to in the meantime.

Any help and/or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Darren K. Page
Montreal, Qc
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On 3 Aug 99, at 0:58, Darren K. Page wrote:

> - connect my Linux machine to a proxy server running on a win98 machine,
> so that I can have an Internet connection for the Linux machine.
>
> For the internet connection, I have gone through netcfg, linuxconf, and
> the KDE control center, and all seems well (i.e. DNS server entries, proxy
> server entries, as well as the proxy settings for Netscape). What am I
> missing? The error that Netscape gives me is: "Netscape is unable to
> connect to your proxy server".

  What proxy software are you running?  Microsoft Proxy Server?  Wingate?
Something else?  [We might need to see the actual settings to spot the
problem.]

> To get the Linux machine to work with my proxy , do I have to get DOS
> connectivity working? If so, I assume that this will also cure my problem
> of not seeing the other machines?

  I think you're thinking of Samba on Linux (and Unix).  As a matter of
security, you do not want those protocols propagated out to the Internet,
and
so your proxy should not be supporting them -- although this could well have
something to do with whether you can "see" other machines.
  Can you "ping" other machines on the local network?  If not, that may mean
that your address/mask settings aren't compatible with the rest of your
network.  [Since the proxy is "another machine on your network", not being
able to ping any of them would also mean Netscappe could not connect to the
proxy....]


David G

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