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[Jethro Carr]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 19:44, Lindsay wrote:
> Mine is going over the network, so I wonder what setting is not correct
> for you John.
> 
> > >  
> > >
> > It's ok, I'm on with the windows system. Still no joy getting evolution 
> > email to go over the network.
> Have you loaded 'Samba' through Synaptic John.  If you haven't, they may
> be the problem.   I checked Computer/System
> Configuration/Networking/General tab and see Enable Windows networking
> is enabled and Descriptions shows "%h (Samba, Ubuntu)" and the correct
> Workgroup.   This indicated that Samba had to be installed.   Hope this
> might point you in the right direction.   From one newbie to another.

I'm not too sure what the problem is, so please excuse me if I'm barking
up the wrong tree, but if the problem is not being able to access the
internet from a linux box, over a network though a windows box, here's
some tips.


Samba doesn't effect stuff like email, it's for sharing files, printers,
& users with a windows machine, so it can't cause problems with email.

If email doesn't work over the network, I assume you also can't access
the internet from that machine? If can access the internet, then it's
most likely a bad setting in evolution.


However, if you can't access the internet at all, Try these steps:

1. Check that all your network connections are correct and see if you
can ping the machine that's routing traffic to the internet. If you
can't ping that, it's a problem with your network setup. fix this and
continue.



2. try pinging 66.102.7.104. If that doesn't work, its a problem with
internet bound traffic not be routed onto the internet.

in that case:

Check that the default gatway on the linux computer is set to the ip
address of the windows computer.

Check that 'internet sharing' is enabled on windows (note: 95 or 98
don't support this).

once you can ping this ip address, continue



3. try pinging www.google.com. If that works, it must be a problem with
evolution or something like a firewall. If it doesn't, it's a DNS name
resoluation problem, which means that your computer doesn't know where
to look to convert www.google.com into 66.102.7.104.

In that case, check that the DNS settings for the linux box are set to
the DNS servers of your ISP.

If your not sure about this being set, just post who your isp is, and
give us the output of the command 'cat /etc/resolve.conf'.



I hope this might be usefull.

-- 
-- Jethro Carr

jethro.carr at jedolinux.com

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