Changed to fixed IP on Linus box and broke Windows Networking????? Help!

[Stephen]

James Knott wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>   
>> I have a Linux (Ubuntu) machine which is largely a server (apache,
>> samba) and all was well when I had it set to dhcp.
>>
>> I want to access from outside, so I changed to fixed IP and now I
>> cannot see it from XP machines, and the Linux box cannot see the XP
>> machines?
>>
>> Pings work fine.
>>
>> Any and all ideas welcome!
>>
>>     
>
> What are the IP address and subnet mask for each computer?
>
> Do you use the hosts files for mapping name to IP?  If so, did you
> update them.
>
> At the command prompt in Windows enter "net view".  What do you see.
>
> At the shell prompt in linux, try smbclient -L hostname.  If that
> doesn't show anything, use the IP address in place of the hostname.
>   
Found it. It was the samba.conf settings.

When I installed it, the tool used the dynamic IP address at the time 
instead of eth0 in specifying the adaptor.

Doh!

All is well now after I fixed that.

Thanks!

Stephen

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