I personally support Cygwin and (to a point) like it, but I don't ever use 
it unless I have NO OTHER POSSIBLE OPTION whatsoever...
For example, for some reason my Linux box quit connecting to my daytime job 
VPN and I installed a SSH server using Cygwin so I can create a reverse 
tunnel and access the AIX server and Linux boxes I actually do stuff with.
ET 

 

Michael Butash writes: 

> Cygwin won't give you ifconfig or ip tools (didn't years back at least), 
> it'll still be "ipconfig /all" 
> 
> Look at the subnet mask there, should be 255.255.255.0.  If they're all on 
> the same switch/router, than they're in the same subnet. 
> 
> Can they ping each other's addresses?  layer 3 is good
> Telnet to each other on port 445 "telnet 192.168.0.x 445"  layer 4 is good
> From windoze, "start->run-> type "\\192.168.0.x\" and see if you can see 
> shares.  Try more specifically if you know the share name. 
> 
> If you want to test from linux back install smbfs packages (specifically 
> for cifs) and mount as: 
> 
> mkdir /tmp/cifs
> mount -t cifs -o defaults,username=myuser //192.168.0.x/share_name 
> /tmp/cifs 
> 
> Layer 5 and up should be good if you can do the last, otherwise figure out 
> where in between the problem lies.  Try in both directions too. It's more 
> than likely with samba config, not the network.  Though I'm not at all 
> sure what that 5.5.6.1 address was you were looking at... 
> 
> -mb 
> 
> 
> On 03/14/2012 05:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>> well, I figured I would d/l something so if you tell me how to do
>> something in *nix I wouldn't have to ask you how to do it in windows. So
>> I googled it and found 'cygwin'. so I install it and the first command I
>> type in I am DENIED! File not found it says. So what is the best unix
>> emulator for windows? 'ip addr show' is the command that wasn't found. 
>> 
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-: 
>> 
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