[bassetman]

Quite a while back, a friend and I turned and old PC into a Linux box for me. He uses it whenever he visits. We had it set up so it could be seen from my Network Neighborhood on my 98 SE machine. If I remember right, I could even telnet into it.
Now I can't see it in my workgroup. I don't know if he turned something off on it, or if something failed.

I can surf the net with it yet. It is the Redmond/Lycoris Linux version.

Any suggesttions on what to do to get it seen on the LAN again?

Thanks
John

[bassetman]

*bump*

[Whiteskin]

How were you connecting, and getting your IP? (I.E. was it static, or DHCP?) If it was dhcp there is a chance that something has gone wrong there (An orphaned .lock file etc.)

[bassetman]

I will try to answer your question to the best of my knowledge!
I believe we used an "assigned" IP ergo a DHCP(?) and as to the rest, that is what I am hoping for help with. I don't know what he may or may have not unmounted!

[Whiteskin]

If it's an assigned (static) adress, then it's not dhcp. try reading this little forum post, and see if that gives you a pointer as to where to go. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=203299

[bassetman]

I looked at that thread, a bit overwhelming.
When I said "assigned" I meant we let the router automatically assign the address, not that WE picked it.

[Whiteskin]

Ahh, try dhcpcd eth0 from the command line.

[bassetman]

Result:
bash: dhcpcd command not found

[Whiteskin]

Pump?

[bassetman]

Originally Posted by Whiteskin

Pump?

.

What are you referring to?

[Whiteskin]

That's the redhat network connection program.

try "locate dhcp" and look for a file inside a bin dir.

[bassetman]

Tried it, got a
bash: locate command not found

I'll be gone for two days, but I appreciate your contiuned help and will look again when I get home.

[codejockey]

Assuming that you can still ping all of the machines on your LAN, you might check to make sure that the samba daemons are still running on your Linux machine. Try using a command such as: ps -ef | egrep mb and you should see something similar to the following:

root 112 1 0 12:55 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/smbd -d 1
root 115 1 0 12:55 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -d 1

If you do not, try starting samba and see if your Linux machine appears on the local network.

Hope this helps.