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Trying to get 'em to play nice...
Jun. 12th, 2001 11:21 pmGetting the two computers at the shop to talk to each other over a network connection is becoming a royal pain. I seem to have lost any skill I ever had in assembling networks that had Linux and Windows boxes on them.
Yesterday, neither Windows box would even recognize itself as being on any network. I don't quite understand why, but enabling print and file sharing on each machine seemed to fix that. I was also advised by the hardware manufacturer of the network cards involved in this struggle of wills of the need to install NetBUEI, which I did.
Mirabile dictu, the machines suddenly saw one another and all was fine with the world. I disabled NetBUEI on one machine and they still saw each other (my machines at home use only TCP/IP and thrive).
Today, after being powered down, I am back almost at square one with these refugees from a sandy junk pile. Neither machine sees the other. Indeed, from time to time, neither machine sees itself in the Network Neighborhood. I am beginning to suspect that yesterday, the routing tables on both machines happened to get arranged in such a way that communications was enabled. I've captured output from netstat on each machine, and I have my suspicions as to where the problem might lie. I've run netstat on my home network, but have yet to sit down and see whether the output confirms my hypothesis.
It was another busy day at the shop. We seem - knock wood - to have pulled out of the dry season, if the past week or so is any indication. I keep getting requests for an Internet connection, and have set the local StarBand distributor the task of supplying me with an installation detail that I can provide to the landlord, as a roof penetration seems indicated. There are, however, rumors to the effect that the local phone company is set to launch DSL locally, but then again, our local phone company has a pretty laughable record in many respects as far as providing service is concerned. (There's lots of local folks keep getting certified letters explaining why installation of phone lines is going to be delayed, and there are times when folks in one local exchange can't call folks in the other local exchange... stuff like that.)
Galina and I cobbled together a Greek salad upon coming home, and we caught the last two-thirds of Searching for Bobby Fischer. It's been a while since I saw it last, and it still has the same power now as it did then; it's definitely one of my favorite pictures (especially considering I am - or was - one of those nutty players featured from time to time in the film, though not of master caliber).
Drew got up early this morning to be one of the first in our neck of the woods to rent Castaway. Though Galina and I saw it in first-run release, I am looking forward to watching it again.
I finally went to sleep this morning at 3:00 am, and was doing the up-and-at-'em thing by 7:30. I am very truly tired as I write this. It is definitely time to hit the sack.
Cheers...
Yesterday, neither Windows box would even recognize itself as being on any network. I don't quite understand why, but enabling print and file sharing on each machine seemed to fix that. I was also advised by the hardware manufacturer of the network cards involved in this struggle of wills of the need to install NetBUEI, which I did.
Mirabile dictu, the machines suddenly saw one another and all was fine with the world. I disabled NetBUEI on one machine and they still saw each other (my machines at home use only TCP/IP and thrive).
Today, after being powered down, I am back almost at square one with these refugees from a sandy junk pile. Neither machine sees the other. Indeed, from time to time, neither machine sees itself in the Network Neighborhood. I am beginning to suspect that yesterday, the routing tables on both machines happened to get arranged in such a way that communications was enabled. I've captured output from netstat on each machine, and I have my suspicions as to where the problem might lie. I've run netstat on my home network, but have yet to sit down and see whether the output confirms my hypothesis.
It was another busy day at the shop. We seem - knock wood - to have pulled out of the dry season, if the past week or so is any indication. I keep getting requests for an Internet connection, and have set the local StarBand distributor the task of supplying me with an installation detail that I can provide to the landlord, as a roof penetration seems indicated. There are, however, rumors to the effect that the local phone company is set to launch DSL locally, but then again, our local phone company has a pretty laughable record in many respects as far as providing service is concerned. (There's lots of local folks keep getting certified letters explaining why installation of phone lines is going to be delayed, and there are times when folks in one local exchange can't call folks in the other local exchange... stuff like that.)
Galina and I cobbled together a Greek salad upon coming home, and we caught the last two-thirds of Searching for Bobby Fischer. It's been a while since I saw it last, and it still has the same power now as it did then; it's definitely one of my favorite pictures (especially considering I am - or was - one of those nutty players featured from time to time in the film, though not of master caliber).
Drew got up early this morning to be one of the first in our neck of the woods to rent Castaway. Though Galina and I saw it in first-run release, I am looking forward to watching it again.
I finally went to sleep this morning at 3:00 am, and was doing the up-and-at-'em thing by 7:30. I am very truly tired as I write this. It is definitely time to hit the sack.
Cheers...
