Re: Connecting to smoothwall with IE

I am wondering if your computers are all on the green network ?
If they are, do they get an ip-address assigned from your smoothie ?

--- Adam Pavelec <apavelec-be0aN53zdcR+u43qRgrggVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:10 AM [GMT-5=EST], Dan Gordon 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >>> I am able to administer smoothwall from Linux using the Opera web
> >>> browser but when I try to connect to smoothwall from any other computer
> >>> on my LAN using windows and Internet explorer it will not connect
> >>> giving a message about the host can not be found.  Am I missing
> >>> something silly ?  Any help is appreciated.
> 
> >> Try http://<IP.Address.of.your.SmoothWall>:81
> 
> > That does not work either.  I have also tried http://smoothwall:81 and
> > https://smoothwall:441 and https://the.ip.address:441 and
> > https://the.name.i.gave.the.smoothwall:441 and
> > http://the.name.i.gave.the.smoothwall:81
> > For some strange reason I can only connect to it using Linux,  I dual
> > boot and even windows on my dual boot computer will not connect to
> > smoothwall.  Now something that may be helpfull is the fact that when
> > I first started smoothwall and set up the computers in the LAN I was
> > able to see shares between Linux and windows but that seems to have
> > stopped working for some reason also.  Windows computers can still
> > see each others shares though.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dan Gordon
> 
> Hmm...
> 
> Can you ping your Smoothie from you Windows box?  By default, it should 
> respond to ping, however, if you enabled "Block IMCP ping:" in 
> networking>advanced, it won't.  Does your Windows box obtain it's IP address 
> from your Smoothie's DHCP service?  Double-check that your Windows box's 
> network settings are up to snuff.
> 
> -Adam
> 
> P.S. Please reply to the entire list so that others can know how your issue 
> is being worked on, and possibly how it gets resolved. 
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