Re: Printer setup - another problem

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 06:14:12PM +0100, Ian Wright wrote:
> I've now realised that I have another problem which has appeared since
> upgrading the machine to Mandrake. For some reason, my windows box doesn't
> now see the linux box in Network neighbourhood. In an MSDOS window I can do
> a 'ping 192.168.1.2' and get a proper reply but, if I try 'ping brass' it
> tells me that it doesn't recognise 'brass', the linux box. I have checked

	It looks that the problem is in the name resolution. You'll
probably need to tell windows that 192.168.1.2 is equivalent to brass.
Unless you have a nameserver running, your windows box will know nothing
of the other box (unless you kindly tell her, that is :D).

	The network seems to be fine, as packets get from one place to
another. As for the Win configuration, I'm afraid I can't help at all.

	Hope you sort it out soon,
	José

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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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