[mythtv-users] Need networking help

[Brian Wood]

On Feb 6, 2006, at 5:35 AM, cs_greene at comcast.net wrote:

> I'm trying to get samba working.  I can't ping my other LAN  
> computers fr0m my KnoppMyth box.  After the ping command the cursor  
> just drops a line, no error messages.  I can ping this box from the  
> rest of the LAN.  So I can respond to pings but not initiate them.   
> Also internet does work on this box.
>
Are you trying to ping by name or numerical IP? If these are local  
machines (which presumably won't DNS properly) and you try and ping  
by name without having them in your /etc/hosts file you would get the  
behavior you report as it waits for DNS to time out.

If you're pinging them by (numerical) IP address and still failing,  
then perhaps your networking is not quite right, but it would be in  
some subtle way since you say internet works, perhaps your subnet is  
not set properly, or, if you have a router in the path, it is not set  
up correctly?