Trying to help out a friend so please bear with me.

He has MDK 9.1 installed on a home network he installed a nic in his Linux box and everything seems fine he is able to ping the linux box from two other computers (both windoze) but he is unable to ping the windoze boxes from his linux box. He says he has no firewall setup he is not connected to the internet thats for another time.

Any ideas on what I can have him look at he is not at this time trying to share anything between the boxes just trying to ping setting up samba later but he should not need samba just to ping.

Hmm
ping is just a reply.... usually over TCP/IP
Therefore it is independent of Samba or anything else.

One thing to check is the TCP/IP settings on the windows machies, where are they getting their IP adress from (static or dhcp) and what netmask.

Secondly, can the windows machines ping each other ??

Thirdly what routes are being used.
If dhcp is used this should be set up via dhcp but if not it has to be set manually, either CLI or a GUI tool.

In linux type
route (and it will show the routing table)
it should have :
a default gw (the route for any IP address not known)
a local network route
i.e if your IP address range in 192.168.1.1-255
then you should have a route
192.168.1.0 with a mask of 255.255.255.0 using the device eth0

In windows I think its
route /print (or something)

To check windows network setting, from a DOS box type "winipcfg"

roland

Thanks for the replies problem solved

Got to his house and checked Linux box just to confirm everything is correct. Then I went to the Windoze box first thing I noticed was he had Zone Alarm running. Checked the setting and sure enough the Linux box was not listed as trusted made the necessary changes bingo we're in business