Using OpenSuse 11.0 and am a relative newbie.
OK, I got Samba working and the shares all set up,finally.
What I need to do is to access my egroupware database on the windows machine. Eventually I’ll migrate it to the Linux machine.
I open up Firefox on the Linux machine and type in http://nakoma:81 and Firefox immediately tries to change it to http://www.nakoma.com and go out onto the internet.
I can access http://nakoma:81 from my other Windows machines, so I know that Apache and MySQL are working on the Windows machine (using WAMPP)
What do I need to set to be able to have my Linux machine access the others with my Firefox browser?
I have changed the Linux firewall to permit TCP and UDP.
Thanks for your help.
Are you using a DNS server to resolv host names on your local network? If not, you can edit /etc/hosts and add your ip and hostname there in order to access to your windows server.
I am not using a DNS server on my local network - I only have 4 machines on it, 3 Windows XP and the one Linux machine.
I connect through the Cisco/Linksys 4 port wireless home router to the internet and between machines. The router takes care of DHCP and the DNS comes through my ISP.
Can I still use the etc/hosts file for the intranet portion to solve the problem?
I modified the Hosts file on the Linux machine as suggested and can get into the Windows machine from the Linux machine but the Windows machines still cannot get into the Linux machine.
Drunk with success, I modified the Hosts file on one of the Windows machines and tried to get into the Linux server from the windows machine’s browser but no luck.
I am trying to consolidate all the various databases and Joomla, vtiger and egroupware on the Linux machine as a server. There are now distributed over several Windows machines.
What do I need to do to get this to work. I disabled the Windows Firewall temporarily but this made no difference.
I do have antivirus on the Windows machine.
Are you sure you are editing the right host file?
On windows XP Home is in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\
On windows XP Pro is in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc
Also, make sure the file is named Hosts only, if you have a Hosts.txt rename it to Hosts without extension.
I am editing the correct Host files. I went through the .txt. problems earlier today.
Thanks for the input.
My Linux machine is named server1, my workgroup is named CBXR.
I entered the following in the Hosts file:
192.168.1.103 server1
After saving the file I shutdown and rebooted the windows machine.
I also tried:
192.168.1.103 server1.cbxr
with the same dismal result. Is either of these correct?
Look at this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314053/en
See if DatabasePath is set correctly.
You may tray to ping to your server from a console also and see if there is some useful info.
Look at this thread Windows XP not using the hosts file - [H]ard|Forum, it seems there is other people with the same problem you have. You may try to flush your client dns cache as it’s explained there.
Just as a suggestion - to allow you to at least work - why not just use the IP address directly rather than rely on an entry in the hosts files? You should certainly be able to hit each machine from the other that way.
Also, what happens if you try to ping the systems from each other? I am sure it tries to resolve it using your DNS server, same as the browser.
The suggestions in the referenced forum sound quite valid to me:
Also, try doing “ipconfig /flushdns” then “ipconfig /registerdns”
If neither of these work, try doing a “route print” to see if you have any persistent routes set up somehow.
My sub-conscious must have been working last night.
I didn’t realize that the Linux Firewall was on and protecting the machine
This morning I turned off the Linux firewall and now I can get into the machine and everything appears to work.
Is there some way to set the firewall to allow local intranet communications but to still protect the machine from the internet?
I have tried adding some services to the internal zone but that has not worked yet.