Windows Network

[Timothy Murphy]

Dr P Dupre wrote:

> By the way, something seems wrong with my linux machine.
> If I do ping homere (or homere.  and the name of the network) it does
> not work from the Linux, but works very well from a XP machine !!!
> homere is a XP machine.
> There are plenty of weird behavior like this one.
> Ping Teucidide.nxxxx  (my linux machine) works fine.
> However, I cannot make Teucidide receive email from outside either !
> I am using a dhcp.
> 
> I am missing something !

Could conceivably be your firewall?

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