Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual page 946

4 Check whether the network servers are running and whether your network setup
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Samba (File Service)
If any application needed data stored in a directory on a Samba server, it
would not be able to start or function properly if this service was down.
NIS (User Management)
If your SUSE Linux Enterprise system relied on a NIS server to provide the
user data, users would not be able to log in to this machine if the NIS service
was down.
LDAP (User Management)
If your SUSE Linux Enterprise system relied on an LDAP server to provide
the user data, users would not be able to log in to this machine if the LDAP
service was down.
Kerberos (Authentication)
Authentication would not work and login to any machine would fail.
CUPS (Network Printing)
Users would not be able to print.
allows you to establish a connection:
IMPORTANT
The debugging procedure described below only applies to a simple net-
work server/client setup that does not involve any internal routing. It
assumes both server and client are members of the same subnet without
the need for additional routing.
4a Use ping hostname (replace hostname with the hostname of the
server) to check whether each one of them is up and responding to the net-
work. If this command is successful, it tells you that the host you were
looking for is up and running and that the name service for your network is
configured correctly.
If ping fails with destination host unreachable, either your
system or the desired server is not properly configured or down. Check
whether your system is reachable by running ping your_hostname