Topic: network problem

[dwater]

Hi,

I just upgraded to SME Server but it I do not get any internet access.

If I assign the ISP's gateway address to my laptop and plug it into the SME Server's port, it can ping fine, but when I plug it into the ISP's network, ping gets no response at all.

If I assing my the SME Server's IP address to my laptop and plug it into the ISP's network, I can ping the ISP's gateway fine.

Any idea what the problem could be?

Max.

[pen25]

what are your dns server ip addresses listed in the laptop? when you test from the server manager using putty ot the console does it work?

[dwater]

what are your dns server ip addresses listed in the laptop? when you test from the server manager using putty ot the console does it work?

The DNS servers were manually set - I didn't see where to manually set them in the SME Server config process, but I don't see that this is the problem since when I ping I use the ip address of the gateway.

I am testing from the command line, using ping. When I test using 'test internet connection' in the management tool (after logging in as 'admin'), it reports a failure. Is that what you mean?

Max.

PS. I did notice that my laptop autonegotiates different port settings to those on the Server, so I used ethtool to set them manually (and editted the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts script to set them at boot). It didn't make any difference though.

[dwater]

When I set up my laptop as if it were my ISP's gateway, I cannot ping SME, but SME can ping me.

I've not seen this behaviour before. Is this normal?

I reinstalled FC2 and it seems to work fine - pings work in both directions w/o problem.

Any ideas? I'd really like to move from FC2 to SME, but w/o network access, I can't really.

Max.

PS. h/w is Compaq ProLiant 370ML (1st generation). it used to run RedHat 7.x w/o any problem.
PPS. fc2 says :
e100:Intel(R) Pro/100 Network Driver, 3.0.17 addr: 0xcbefb000 irq:5
I guess I could check this same thing in SME?

[dwater]

well, I'll be....

After putting fc2 on it to find out the type of NIC, I reinstalled SME again, and it worked first time.

The only thing I did differently was to NOT specify a server for the local DNS. The first time, I had specified an ISP's DNS server there, since that is what I thought it was asking for; I had subsequently deleted that from the server administrator, but perhaps doing so didn't completely reverse the error?

Anyone care to give an option?

In any case; I'm sorry for the interruption, and I'm happy that it is now working, and to be able to move forward to setting it up as a file server etc etc.

Max.