On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Dave Kleist wrote: > Off-topic: I'm trying to get some windows boxes (2000, ME) to connect > on the network and ping to each other. They won't but the Debian box > seems to be okay. I've got addresses assigned, etc, but they won't > talk to each other: some boxes won't even ping themselves. Anybody > seen anything like this before? Any hints or suggestions (it's > already occurred to me to have a huge bonfire). I don't have any big hints. I have a Win 95 box that's happy enough sharing files via samba. That way I can use the SCSI card that came with the scanner to make the shared files (and get 9600 bpi resolution if I want to beat the SANE driver's res and take up 4*Gigabytes* in one file!). But, I did see some weird net stuff recently using W2K Pro for a couple of minutes. It seems that Internet explorer does funny things to the net data and it interferes heavily with the firewall -- i.e., I.E. can't get a packet through it because of all the crap they've added to the protocol. Netscape 6 on the same machine worked just fine. I think someone needs to take a packet sniffer over to the DoJ and tell them, "They're doing it again!" don't tell me they're messing with fundamental protocols to try and "own" the net... Or did I make a little mistake and get paranoid? Phil M -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous