Setting up network

[Bill Tetens]

I got the IP address of one of the other computers and then went to the 
Linux machine and used the terminal window and pinged the windows 
computer and got a repeating message as follows

64 bytes from 192.168.123.100 and etc.
That is the IP address of the windows computer and I assume it was 
seeing it.

What I meant by seeing the other computers was with windows you have a 
network window that shows all the networked computers and when you click 
on one it show what is being shared and you can click on that icon and 
get into the drive or whatever is being shared.

ml at ps102.de wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> 
> 
> 
>>I just got a FC2 computer up and running.  It is attached to a small 
>>home network which is attached to the internet by DSL.  The linux 
>>computer connects to the internet and operates perfectly.  My problem
>>is that it does not see any of the computer on the net work.  How can
>>I configure the computer to see the other computers.
> 
> 
> 
> ok, second try. So your DSL-Modem connects to the router and the router
> has connections to each pc? Every PC is able to connect to the internet?
> Your FC2 pc is not the router.
> 
> If the answer to all these questions is "yes" then we'll go on by
> defining what you mean by "see another computer on the net".
> 
> One very basic test is the mentioned "ping". It's a small packet (called
> echo request) which is sent over the network to other machines. If they
> get it, they will answer with a echo reply and you can be sure that
> these machines have a network connection.
> 
> To do this, click "Start -> Run" on one Windows box and type "cmd" in
> the field. Then a commandline opens. There you can type "ipconfig /all"
> and you get output which contains the ip-address of this computer.
> 
> On the FC2 machine start a xterm and you'll get a similar looking
> commandline-window. There you can type: "ping ip.addr.of.win" where
> ip.addr.of.win is the ip-address of the windows computer. If you get
> responses, then the basic network link is working.
> 
> And we are back at our initial question what you mean by saying "see the
> other computers on the network".
> 
> But one step after another, as long as the ping requests doesn't get
> answered we needn't look any further.
> 
> 
>  -volker
> 
>