Help with A1200 to pc network

[ikorodu]

Hi,

was hoping someone out there can help me here.

I am trying to set up networking on my 1200, but am unable to get my PC (running XP Home) to respond to pings sent from the amiga.  Everything seems to work the other way and I can ping the amiga from the PC.  I can even use Amiga Explorer to view and transfer files between the two machines.  But if I ping the pc from the amiga i get nothing but 100% packet loss.

Any ideas ?

Heres some info on my set up:

Amiga A1200
3Com PCMCIA card
IP 192.168.1.2
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.101

Win XP Home
IP 192.168.1.1
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.101

Connection is by crossover cable.

Thanks in advance,

ikorodu

[ikorodu]

I have indeed deactivated the windows fire wall.  It seems strange when I ping from the amiga, If I look at the network connection status on the pc it shows that its recieveing data from the amiga (the ping i assume) but the PC never replies.  

I also can't understand why Amiga Explorer works faultessly!

This is driving me nuts!

ikorodu

[ikorodu]

@ motorollin

I'm trying to set up samba so I can use the PC drives from the amiga.  I just used Amiga Explorer as a test.

@Thomas

I am a complete newbie to networks so my settings could well be wrong.  If I under stand you right then I should set the following:

Amiga A1200
IP 192.168.1.2
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.1

Win XP Home
IP 192.168.1.1
Subnet 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.1.2

Is this what you mean?

If so I'll try it tonight when I get home from work.

Thanks for the help


ikorodu

[ikorodu]

@noster

Will check my pc config when i get home tonight

@patrik

I'm not using a router just a crossover cable between the two machnines and the PC is connected to the internet via a usb modem

@motorollin

I have had the system working with Amiga Explorer without the gateway ip in place, I added them to try to get the ping thing to work (as I say I know nothing about networking!)  Maybe Nosters idead about pings being blocked is right.  I'll check tonight and post back.

Thanks everyone for your help so far.

ikorodu

[ikorodu]

Disabled ZoneAlarm and now I can Ping!

I still can not see the amiga from the PC (in network places) even though I think I have samba running ok, but I have Amiga Explorer for this no no real problem.

I would like to see the pc drives from the amiga and am trying to use SMBFS to set this up, however when i try to run smbfs from the shell I get an error saying its not an executable.  Any advice here chaps?

Thanks again for the help guys.

ikorodu

[ikorodu]

My card is a 3Com Megahertz 10 Mbps Model 3CCE589EC