Topic: No ping

[Stephan Goeldi]

I was able to set e-smith up with my 3c509b (ISA) card using the commands
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration set EthernetDriver1 3c509
and
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
Afterwards I repeated the configuration steps.
I am now writing this topic using lynx on e-smith.

I tried to connect my Windows NT workstation to e-smith.
After some searching in the forum (the manual is very poor for NT users), I found the commands:
/sbin/e-smith/db accounts set foo machine comment "bla"
and
/etc/e-smith/events/actions/machine-account-create machine-create foo
I even started the e-smith manager with lynx and added the user as used on the NT machine.
now I can see the e-smith-server in Network Neighborhood.
But when I make a ping to 192.168.1.1, it tells me "network not reachable"
I am using Windows NT 4.0 SP5.

Did I miss something?

[Dan York]

Stephan,

> After some searching in the forum (the manual is very poor
> for NT users),

I would be VERY interested in your feedback about what we could
do to make the manual better for NT users.  Please contact me
directly at 'dyork@e-smith.com'.  Thanks.

> But when I make a ping to 192.168.1.1, it tells me "network
> not reachable"
> I am using Windows NT 4.0 SP5.
>
> Did I miss something?

Maybe... maybe not.  If you can't ping, there's a lower level
issue of connectivity that is not occurring here. On your NT box,
if you do:

  ipconfig

do you see an Ethernet adapter with an IP address of 192.168.1.x?

Next, if you do (on your NT box):

  route print

do you see something along the lines of:

  192.168.1.0  255.255.255.0  192.168.1.x  192.168.1.x  1

that would be the route you should see.  If you do not, then something is not getting set right at an IP level.

You should also see a default route that looks like:

  0.0.0.0   0.0.0.0   192.168.1.1  192.168.1.x  1

If these routes *are* there and are okay, there's some other issue we need to look at.

Dan

[Stephan Goeldi]

The routes are not there.
What I have is:

IP-Adress: 192.168.1.10 (workstation, because no DHCP server was found)
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Standard Gateway: 192.168.1.1

DNS-Service 192.168.1.1

WINS-Server 192.168.1.1

activate DNS for Windows?

LMHOSTS?

IP-Forwarding?