1- subnet- Yep.... they're all on the same subnet 2- ping- mint to ubuntu- success! mint to XP- success XP to mint- success! XP to Ubuntu- Success! Ubuntu to Mint- Success! Ubuntu to XP- Success! Layer 3 is intact. 3- telnet mint to ubuntu- success! mint to XP- success XP to mint- success! XP to Ubuntu- Success! Ubuntu to Mint- Success! Ubuntu to XP- Success! Layer is intact. I couldn't figure out how to use telnet but it didn't error out so I figure it is all good. 4a- "start->run-> type "\\192.168.0.x\" and see if you can see shares. They are seen. 4b- mount -t cifs -o defaults,username=myuser //192.168.0.x/share_name /tmp/cifs the XP directory is mounts and lista in the ubuntu and mint computers but when I go from the mint to ubuntu it refuses to accept my passwd. You know.... I have no idea what the password is! I've never been able to access the share. I suppose I could set it for Guest access but I don't like that idea because what if I'm at starbucks and so,eome there hacks into..... what would they have to do to get into my box before they see the folders which allow guest access? I suppose it would be better to find out why it won't accept my password! Anyways: ip addr show is how I picked up the 5.5.8.1/21 . I am guessing it has something to do with a VPN because as0t1 has something to do with VPN. (I remember playing woth VPN for a day or two) bmike1@Michaels-PC:~$ ip addr show 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000 link/ether 00:09:6b:78:ab:f0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.0.3/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::209:6bff:fe78:abf0/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: as0t1: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 200 link/none inet 5.5.8.1/21 brd 5.5.15.255 scope global as0t1 bmike1@Michaels-PC:~$ On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > 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~(-: >> >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss >> > ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: