Re: connecting two computers using crossover cable - redhat 7.3 and win2000

[John Derbyshire <john wtsys net>]

It sounds as though TCP/IP is correctly installed on both - although you
could verify this by pinging each machine from the other. What makes you
think it isn't working?

What are you actually trying to achieve? If you want to share files or
printers from Linux to Win2000 then you need to install and configure
Samba. I'm sure you can share in the other direction too, but I don't
know how (I'm a newbie myself, but setting up Samba was very easy). See
the Samba section under
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/

-John


Paul Barriscale wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to connect two computers using a crossover cable but don't seem
> to be having much success. I have an Intel Ether Express 100 on Redhat machine
> and a 3Com card in Win2000 machine. Redhat IP addresse is 192.168.1.1 (netmask
> 255.255.255.0) with no gateway entry and Win2000 is 192.168.1.2 (netmask
> 255.255.255.0) with no gateway entry either. Not having any luck with this.
> As far as I can tell both cards work ok and cable has been tested. Am I
> missing something?
> 
> Also have noticed that when I changed ip address on redhat machine to 192.168.1.2
> Win2000 machine did complain about a IP conflict and gave MAC address of
> redhat machine as source of conflict.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul
> 
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