win can't ping linux but linux pings win

[udo4accept]

i have a small network setup at home for file and internet sharing. the server is nt, the workstations are win98 and i'm trying to add my first linux install to the workstations. my linux box can ping all the win98 and nt boxes but i can't ping the linux box from the windows boxes. my subnets for all are the same.

[JBrian]

Im having similiar problems, but I cant get an echo from either side (Win98 & Slack 7.1) I have discovered a couple helpful utilities, though. In DOS you can type net diag at the prompt and it will help you troubleshoot the win side, although it hasn't done me much good and I dont know if that will work in NT.
In linux, at least slackware, you can run tcpdump which might help on the linux side. I wish I had more advice, I've had a hard time finding a solution to my problem, going on two weeks now.
-Jeff

You might find some useful info on this site: www.helmig.com (http://www.helmig.com)
Please post any fix's you might discover, as I am running out of ideas. Thanx

[This message has been edited by JBrian (edited 09 October 2000).]

[cs25x]

ftp your /etc/hosts file across to the win box c:\windows Do not try to edit it in wondows because that system adds .txt to the end of the file name.
When you say you can ping, i assume you mean ping a computer by name? In that case your windows hosts file is the problem.
Otherwise, ( pinging 198.162.0.xx ) windows is not setup properly like in on the ethernet card properties.

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[udo4accept]

i have the hosts file setup on the linux box giving the server ip a name but not any of the win98 boxes. i can ping the server by name from the linux box and can ping all by pinging the ip address'. but from the windows side, i am just trying to ping the ip of the linux box 192.168.1.4 and it doesn't work. i'll setup the hosts file in the windows boxes but i really don't thing that will help anything. also i just noticed that the linux box has the ethernet card listed as l0 (as in L-zero) shouldn't that be eth0? i tried creating eth0 and making it active and assigning it the same ip address but then i couldn't ping anything from the linux box so i switched it back. ugh.