Topic: DHCP works, but nothing else

[John Lobe]

I just installed e-smith on one PC and run Win98 on my other PC.  Network cards appear to have installed OK on the server.  I can get out to external web sites from the server.  The Win98 machine can obtain an IP address just fine via DHCP.  But I cannot do anything else with the e-smith server from the Win98 machine.  Can't ping (either direction), can't access the e-smith-manager web page, etc.  

Anyone know how this can be?

[Steven lewis]

Do you have the client machine(win 98) set up as the manual states concerning the network settings? When satisfied that the network settings are correct on the win 98 client point your browser to http://192.168.1.1, that should bring up the manager.

[peter]

With my system, http://192.168.1.1 brings up the starter web site.
To get to  the manager I use either www.mydomain.xxx/e-smith-manager or
http://192.168.1.1:980/

[John Lobe]

The Win98 client setup looks to be per the manual: Automatically obtain IP address, workgroup name = e-smith.  IP address ends up as the standard 192.168.1.65, the DHCP server is 192.168.1.1 and the subnet mask ends up being 255.255.255.0.  Also, TCP/IP on the client was previously working on a direct DSL connection.

Browsing to http://192.168.1.1/ just times out.  So does ping.
This Win98 client does run ZoneAlarm at startup, which I shutdown before trying to do things.  Wouldn't think that this is a problem, but maybe it is?

[John Lobe]

For the record, I am chalking this up as a hardware incompatiblity.  The PCI support on the computer I was using appears to be a very early version.  (The machine is a Gateway P4D-66 upgraded to Pentium overdrive 83MHz.)  Tried to test the NIC in Windows to see if it fared any better.  Windows reported problems with it and proceeded to lock up the computer.  A fitting end to this endeavor.  Since I have PCI network adapters I guess I will try a newer machine now.