[lug] problem with DHCP/Samba/something

[S. Luke Jones]

I've set my Linux box as a DHCP server and it works well enough
to satisfy the Win2K laptop I use at work. But it isn't making
my regular Win98 box happy. There is some kind of contact:

    # grep dhcp /var/log/messages
    Apr 21 14:39:01 coyote dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:c0:93:01:dd:d7 via eth0
    Apr 21 14:39:02 coyote dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.0.1.3 to 00:c0:93:01:dd:d7 via eth0

So my windows box (with the MAC address shown here) is contacting the
Linux box sufficiently well to ask for an IP address from it, and the
Linux box thinks it's provided an IP address. But it hasn't, because
then I do:

    # ping 10.0.1.3
    Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP
    PING 10.0.1.3 (10.0.1.3) from 10.0.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
    From 10.0.1.1: Destination Host Unreachable
    From 10.0.1.1: Destination Host Unreachable
    From 10.0.1.1: Destination Host Unreachable
    From 10.0.1.1: Destination Host Unreachable
    From 10.0.1.1: Destination Host Unreachable
    From 10.0.1.1: Destination Host Unreachable

    --- 10.0.1.3 ping statistics ---
    7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, +6 errors, 100% packet loss

I'm pretty confident of the basic physical network fabric, and the
DHCP traffic would appear to bear that out. But the Windows machine
is a black box. I don't know why it isn't happy with the supplied
IP address.

Any ideas?

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Luke Jones = luke/vortex/frii/fullstop/com