OT: Network Problem

Sorry for the OT message but can any of the experts here tell me why one computer on my network can
see the other but not vice-versa?

At first I thought it was a problem with the second computer, since the first could always see the
second, but yesterday I turned the second one on first and the problem reversed itself. So whichever
computer I turn on first can see the other one, but not the other way around.

It's always worked in the past, but this started happening recently, at exactly the same time that
the internet & usenet mysteriously became inaccessible. Reinstalling my internet software fixed
that. It seems that I lost my internet settings somehow. I've tried reinstalling my network drivers
but to no avail.

Have I overlooked something simple? Win98SE, RealTec Fast Ethernet card, NetBEUI and TCP/IP
protocols are installed.

Paul
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"Paul Saunders" <pvs1@wildwales.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:bjsk82$2s0$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Sorry for the OT message but can any of the experts here tell me why one computer on my network
> can see the other but not vice-versa?
>
> At first I thought it was a problem with the second computer, since the first could always see the
> second, but yesterday I turned the second one on first and the problem reversed itself. So
> whichever computer I turn on first can see the other one, but not the other way around.
>
> It's always worked in the past, but this started happening recently, at exactly the same time that
> the internet & usenet mysteriously became inaccessible. Reinstalling my internet software fixed
> that. It seems that I lost my internet settings somehow. I've tried reinstalling my network
> drivers but to no avail.
>
> Have I overlooked something simple? Win98SE, RealTec Fast Ethernet card, NetBEUI and TCP/IP
> protocols are installed.
>
> Paul
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>
>

Hmm. always difficult to diagnose any PC problems remotely - can you ping each machine - are they
DHCP served or do you have static IP addresses ?

If you do an IPCONFIG/RENEW and try and ping the each machine what happemns ?

Do you have a Network Hub / router ? Does it serve out the IP addresses ?

How many systems do you have networked - if two or three - why not allocate static IP addresses and
see what happens ?

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In article <bkqeur$502$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>, Paul Saunders <pvs1@wildwales.fsnet.co.uk> writes
>John Laird wrote:
>
>> I can't disagree with you there. You don't even need to hang onto your own old kit as perfectly
>> serviceable ex-office machines can be found for very little.
>
>Where would I find such machines?
>

Computer fairs.

http://www.computerfairs.co.uk/

They list Swansea Leisure Centre and Cardiff University as venues but don't have any fairs listed at
either venue at the moment :-(

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Pat Bennett wrote:

> No - at the moment, I've only used about 20% of the 30gig. I just wanted to make sure that I had
> plenty of room for experimentation.

That's okay then.

> Agreed. My wife and I log on as users, and cannot touch each others Linux files, or the system
> files. Very secure. If I need to do some admin, I log on as root, and then I have set the desktop
> to be a nice dangerous shade of red, to remind me that I have the power to do really nasty things
> to the computer.

Is it that bad?

> There is a system file which gets read on startup (/etc/fstab) which sets the hard drives, their
> mount points and properties. Once I had this sorted out properly, the Windows drive containing My
> Documents became readable and writeable.

Right, ta.

> I am using Red Hat 8.0, but Red Hat 9.0 is available. There are also Suse, Debian, Mandrake and
> quite a lot of other distributions.

All different operating systems? Do they look and function much differently? Which is generally
considered to be the best?

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> I am using Red Hat 8.0, but Red Hat 9.0 is available. There are also Suse, Debian, Mandrake and
> quite a lot of other distributions.

Not to mention NetBSD, FreeBSD or OpenBSD which are based on the Berkeley Unix sources (of old)
rather than the Linux ones. (They have a much less restrictive licence than the GPL of Linux.)

David

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:12:26 +0100, "Paul Saunders"
<pvs1@wildwales.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>Craig Cooke wrote:
>
>> Oh dear, now I know I've drunk too much - even the apologetic typo post has typo's - ok all the
>> letters are there - simply re-arrange them to make the sentence :-)
>
>ROTFL!

Obviously been taking lessons from Les Dawson (on the piano) - all the right keys, just not in the
right order.

Yes, Craig, you have the right me, as it were.
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John Laird wrote:

> I can't disagree with you there. You don't even need to hang onto your own old kit as perfectly
> serviceable ex-office machines can be found for very little.

Where would I find such machines?

Paul
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> Computer fairs.
>
> http://www.computerfairs.co.uk/
>
> They list Swansea Leisure Centre and Cardiff University as venues but don't have any fairs listed
> at either venue at the moment :-(

Thanks Dominic.

Paul
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:46:01 +0100, "Paul Saunders"
<pvs1@wildwales.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>John Laird wrote:
>
>> I can't disagree with you there. You don't even need to hang onto your own old kit as perfectly
>> serviceable ex-office machines can be found for very little.
>
>Where would I find such machines?

Hang around in, or google, uk.adverts.computers

Two that are often recommended are www.itdealers.co.uk and snowdon computers (who have a shop on
Ebay). Judging from the rather silly prices that auction bidders can get to, you might do better to
stick to a more traditional "shop".

HTH.

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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:05:57 +0100, John Laird <nospam@laird-towers.org.uk>
wrote:

>Hang around in, or google, uk.adverts.computers

Oops, no s on the end. It's uk.adverts.computer

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John Laird wrote:

> Hang around in, or google, uk.adverts.computer

> Two that are often recommended are www.itdealers.co.uk and snowdon computers (who have a shop on
> Ebay). Judging from the rather silly prices that auction bidders can get to, you might do better
> to stick to a more traditional "shop".

Thanks, noted for futre reference.

Paul
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