Linux Knoppix help needed, can ping an XP computer but cant browse the network

[Slacker]

Tell me what you need to know, I got no clue, new to Linux

I can ping my win xp computer by ip from the knoppix laptop, I have a working internet connection on the knoppix laptop that is through a router that the xp computer uses.

I dont know what else to add

 

[n0cmonkey]

What have you tried?

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: Slacker
Tell me what you need to know, I got no clue, new to Linux

I can ping my win xp computer by ip from the knoppix laptop, I have a working internet connection on the knoppix laptop that is through a router that the xp computer uses.

I dont know what else to add

what do you mean browse the network? do you mean the my network neighborhood like in windows? if so, use nautilus browser in kde, not gnome. This will allow you to browse the network, but you won't be able to see the names, all machines will show up as IP's

you can then use SMB if you want to access files in your XP machine.

 

[Slacker]

I dont know what to say, I have never used Linux for more than a couple of minutes at a time, this is the first time that I am planning to make it my main O.S. for the laptop

I found that I can ping the linux laptop from XP and vice versa

I tried telnetting in and got no response from the xp machine from the linux laptop

Tried telnetting in from xp to the laptop and got a could not open connection message

In knoppix I have tried lineighborhood to browse the network and it sees the workgroup but says unknown host when I try to connect to the i.p. of the xp machine

trying smb:/// @#%$! WTF as I am typing this I tried smb:/// again and now I have access to my xp computers drives and files

Ummmm o.k. that is weird, pretty sure the next time I restart I am going have to fumble around and figure out how I did that

 

[FreshPrince]

Originally posted by: Slacker
I dont know what to say, I have never used Linux for more than a couple of minutes at a time, this is the first time that I am planning to make it my main O.S. for the laptop

I found that I can ping the linux laptop from XP and vice versa

I tried telnetting in and got no response from the xp machine from the linux laptop

Tried telnetting in from xp to the laptop and got a could not open connection message

In knoppix I have tried lineighborhood to browse the network and it sees the workgroup but says unknown host when I try to connect to the i.p. of the xp machine

trying smb:/// @#%$! WTF as I am typing this I tried smb:/// again and now I have access to my xp computers drives and files

Ummmm o.k. that is weird, pretty sure the next time I restart I am going have to fumble around and figure out how I did that

i'm glad smb worked for you, that's really all you need if you want to have access to your files in xp

you can try messing with samba to get a prettier interface, but I think SMB works just fine for simple file copies.

 

[drag]

I think that he is using SAMBA to connect. SMB is the networking protocol, Samba is the Unix version of the windows file and print services.



BTW telnet is turned off by default on most linux installs. It's a security risk, and I don't think that WinXP ever had a telnet server except thru IIS stuff.

If you want to connect from a remote computer you can use SSH and that's on by default usually. It's encrypted and all that fun stuff, you see.

A good ssh client for Windows is Putty.exe. Very good stuff.

Also you have VNC servers/clients for Linux you can use for remote administration, also Webmin is aviable one way or another. And that's webbased solution.

NFS is a common lan file service for Unix, but it's a bit old fasioned. FTP is commonly avialbe by default, but often it's not because it's a security risk similar to telnet.

CUPS, is a common unix print server. It's gives good quality prints as long as your using a decent printer (no lexmarks or cannons, HP's usually work as do many Epsons). You can use SAMBA to set up a server for file printing for Windows.

However it's designed specificly for the IPP. The internet printing protocol. That way you avoid dealing with the complications of SMB. Plus it's internet-wide printing, so you can print from a remote network if you realy realy wanted to.

Plus W2k and above OS's can use IPP for printing. That way with the proper printer Linux makes a great print server.