HP-UX 10.20 and Windows XP Networking

[Thomas Lawton]

How can I connect my HP-UX 10.20 server (9000 series) to my XP home pc using the ethernet cards. I ahve got all hardware installed and cables but they cant find each other on the lan from both ends. Even the lights on the back of the lan cards light up. I think it could be to do with protocols but I am not sure.

Please Please Help!! I will reward alot of points(10) to anyone who answers the question usefully!!!

Thanks,

Tom

[Pete Randall]

Tom,

I've never done anything of the sort and don't really get into PC internals, but it would seem to me that you're going to have to set IP addresses on each card and defined enough routing information for the two to find each other. On the HP-UX side, look at "man ifconfig".


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Tom,

Oops - and "man route".


Pete

[John Meissner]

do you have the IP's on the same network
i.e. 192.168.1.X
and is the subnet the same
i.e. 255.255.255.0
and the gateway?
i.e. 192.168.1.1

These are the first things I'd check

Then try using ping to see if you get a response

[Massimo Bianchi]

Hi,

first:did you use a CROSS-CABLE ?
From what you say, if light are off, you are using thew wrong cable.

Second: configure ip on the same subnets for both of the nodes

third: configure the same speed, 10MB is supported for sure on both boxes

fourth: pay attention to use an ethernet card, there may be confusing jack in the back. may be you have a N- or L- class, and you may trying to configure the lan-console......

HTH,
Massimo

[Ross Zubritski]

After establishing layer 3 connectivity, i.e. ip addy's for both boxes, you wil need to load CIFS9000 (samba). This will allow to map drives, etc.

Regards,

RZ

[Steven E. Protter]

On the XP box.

ipconfig

On the HP-UX box

ifconfig lan0

change the zero to whatever the active card actual is, recoverable from /etc/rc.config.d/netconf

I did very little admin on 10.X systems so some of this might not work.

Compare the network output.

Makes sure the subnet is the same. Make sure the IP address is different.

If not compatible, use set_parms or sam on the HP box to make them compatible.

You could edit
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf
and bypass this depending on your skill level.

Next, the ping test.

from HP, ping the XP box.

from XP ping HP.

If you get an answer life is good.

Networking concerns.

/etc/nsswitch.conf

for a two machine network the hosts line should be set to files.


/etc/hosts on HP

contain an entry like this.

hostname_of_xp_box ip_of_xp_box

Those two entries are seperated by tab.

There is an equivalent to /etc/hosts in XP, but I don't know where it is.

Don't bother searching the network neighborhood until you have ping connectivity working.

I don't believe CIFS was ever ported to 10.20 so you are going to have to get the source code and compile it. It is however not essential to your networking, unless you need to share printers or folders.

http://www.samba.org

SEP