Help!! Windows2000 Server communication with Linux

[DCCoolBreeze]

All I would like to do is make my linux server available to my Windows200 Servers and Workstations and make my Windows2000 systems available to the Linux server. This is what I have:

Windows2000 DHCP Server 10.10.1.1
Windows2000 Domain Controller
Windows2000 Workstations (get ip's from DHCP)

The windows systems work well. Now the Linux systems are so far just one (more later once I get this one working)

linux Samba Server (Reh Hat Linux 7.2)

I can ping all windows pc's from the other window's pc's
However, if I ping the windows pc's via linux I get the following:

ping 10.10.1.1 (10.10.1.1) from 10.0.0.254 : ...
from 10.0.0.254: Destination Host Unreachable
...

ifconfig shows:

eth0 Link encap:...
inet addr: 10.0.0.254 BcastL10.255.255.255
Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
PX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX butes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:546 (546.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base Address:0x220


route returns:
Desination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
10.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 lo

traceroute 10.10.1.1 returns

1 10.0.0.254 (10.0.0.254) 2997.417 ms !H 2997.857 ms !H
2998.891 ms !H

From a windows2000 machine:

ping 10.0.0.254
Request timed out.
...

The linux machine is connected to a hub which shows an active connection. When ping is initiated the host lights respond accordingly.

This is driving me crazy...funny farm material...)

Can any one help?????