Windows 98 networking

[rprosser]

OK, this is not strictly a Linux issue, but I imagine that it is a common problem.

I have a Windows 98 PC connected to the 'net via DUN and DHCP. I also have a second PC on which I have installed Red Hat 7.0, and I have connected the two via Ethernet cards and a cross-over cable. I want to use Linux for development purposes, but I will not connect it to the 'net (yet).

I can get the Ethernet connection to work OK if I configure the Windows card with a fixed IP address, subnet mask, etc. But this prevents my dial-up network from operating for some obscure reason (I have not changed the dial-up adapter settings). So it appears that I cannot successfully configure both networks simultaneously. I am sure I managed this with Red Hat 6.2 however. Unfortunately this was last year and I do not have a record of the settings that I used.

I would like to use a static IP address for the Ethernet card if possible, but one solution may be to set up a DHCP server on the Linux box, so that Windows will have a dynamically-assigned IP address on both networks. But Red Hat 7 does not have this server installed (unless I missed it) - there are some Help files however!

Any assistance would be much appreciated.

Richard Prosser

[paco]

Very strange that you can't get your dialup networking in win98 working in DHCP and use a static IP for your LAN-Card..

Normally this isn't happening.....

But as far as I know this problem is never happened.

Are you sure your winbox is installed succesfully???

Saying this because I had the same situation and it worked fine.....

[ASCI Blue]

hardware conflict maybe?

[bdg1983]

Originally posted by rprosser:
I can get the Ethernet connection to work OK if I configure the Windows card with a fixed IP address, subnet mask, etc. But this prevents my dial-up network from operating for some obscure reason

You should have two lines in your win98 networking like (could be worded slightly different):
TCP/IP->Dialup Adapter
TCP/IP->Lan Adapter
Use the second one to assign a static IP to the ethernet card and leave the first one for auto IP setting. They should NOT interfere with each other if you set the ip settings from the "properties" from each of the above 2 lines.

Hope this helps.

[hndpaul]

That's a strange one indeed! Did you set the IP address for your internal LAN as a private range address so that it doesn't matter if it leaks to the web? It may be conflicting with your static IP address and making your machines think they exist on a separate subnet.

Try changing the IP address, but apart from that I'm not too sure :rolleyes:

Paul, UK

[Leo III]

I have almost the same problem. I have a win98 with RH connected to a hub. They cannot ping each other. They have static IPs. But when I boot the boxes both in win98, they can ping each other. This only happens when one of them is in RH. What gives? As far as i know if PC1 is 192.168.1.1 and the PC2 is 192.168.1.2 (they have the sambe netmask) they should ping each other....

Help!

[bdg1983]

Originally posted by Leo III:
As far as i know if PC1 is 192.168.1.1 and the PC2 is 192.168.1.2 (they have the sambe netmask) they should ping each other

IP addresses are not setup in samba, but in linux networking instead. Both your pcs should have the same netmask no matter which os you are using.
PC1 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0
PC2 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.0
You apparently have windows configured ok, but should check your RH networking config. Since I use Mandrake, it is under DrakConf/Linuxconf/Networking/Host name and IP network devices.
Adaptor 1 (using eth0) has:
IP Address 192.168.1.1
Netmask 255.255.255.0

The second pc should be the same in RH except the ip address would be 192.168.1.2