Ping, Amiga<>PC LAN, dual Ethernet cards, filesharing probs & fixes

[Piru]

@gizmo350

Well, for starters, each computer in a simple PC LAN environment, known as a workgroup, must be a member of that workgroup to "see" each other. Crate a workgroup name something like "mylan". Join all computers to that workgroup and you should be good to go.

This is not required for networking to work. Ping works just fine regardless of workgroup.

Thus, this cannot be his problem.

@ChaosLord

Of course they are in the same workgroup!
How else would my LAN have worked all that Time?

Just fine.

The only thing that wouldn't work would be the samba connection. Ping, and every other network connection between the computers would still work.

Anyway, regarding the problem: One possibility is that the XP firewall has for some reason figured that your system must be blocked. Try temporarily disabling the firewall and see if you can ping then.

[Piru]

@gizmo350

Just because it obviously cannot be a workgroup problem (just think about it for a second, wrong workgroup can't block ping!).

[Piru]

@ChaosLord

BTW it is excessively dangerous to turn off the firewall while online with Verizon DSL.

If your system has the security updates upto date and doesn't have passwordless network shares open to everybody, it should be safe for testing.

Anyway, you should try isolating the problem a bit. Try connecting the amiga to some other system or the DSL directly (if only possible), and see if that works. It helps if you can rule out some hardware from the equation...

[Piru]

@ChaosLord

Alternatively if you have some 2nd pc you could try replacing the amiga with it and see if that works (just remember to config the static ip to one used in amiga 1st).