On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Dr P Dupre wrote:
By the way, something seems wrong with my linux machine.
If I do ping homere (or homere. and the name of the network) it does
not work from the Linux, but works very well from a XP machine !!!
homere is a XP machine.
There are plenty of weird behavior like this one.
Ping Teucidide.nxxxx (my linux machine) works fine.
However, I cannot make Teucidide receive email from outside either !
I am using a dhcp.
I am missing something !
Could conceivably be your firewall?
Firewall is enabled
services are Mail, SSH, Samba
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