I fairly new to Macs. Everything I

[NTesla]

I fairly new to Macs. Everything I know is on the PC. In fact I'm posting this message on a pc.

I have a home network with 7 pc's and on mac. One of the PC is running Windows 2000 Server. All other PC's are running Windows 2000 Pro. The Mac is running Mac OS 9.2. All computers are connected to each other though a Linksys Swicth, and connected to the Internet though a Linksys Router.

All PC are able to connect to the Internet, receive email and etc. The Mac cannot access Internet or receive email. I have test the cat5 with a wire map meter and everything checks out fine. The lights on the switch the Mac is connected are light up. I can ping the Mac from any of the PC's.

My question is does Mac have something like the command prompt on the PC? Were I can 'Ping' IP addresses so that I can test connectivity? Is their a loopback address, like on the pc it is 127.0.0.1? If their is not a way to tect connectivity then how can I trouble shoot this problem?

 

[jimbopalmer]

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/4191

is a program that does Pings, DNS Lookups, trace routes, and more.

To set up Internet in 9.2
Under Apple Menu, In Control Panels, you will want TCP/IP
in Menu Edit, Choose USER MODE Advanced
Connect via Ethernet
Configure via DHCP Server (this assumes you use DHCP from the router)
list your ISP in all the questions about Domain Names (could be as many as 3)
put the IP addresses of you DNS servers in the field Name Server Addr. ( you can get this from a PC with IPCONFIG /ALL in a DOS prompt)


I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[NTesla]

Thanks the program helped. I knew as soon as I could ping all my internal addresses, and even ping my external address, but could not ping a website (

http://www.nfl.com

is my favorite test site). I knew it was a dns problem. My isp changed dns servers on me and did not tell me. I knew I had it working at one point.

Thanks for the help. I learned something tonight.

 

[jimbopalmer]

I use

http://www.cowswithguns.com

I always have the feeling it won't be a cached site on any computer I work on.

if ANY of the IP addresses you list is a vailid server, the Mac's TCP stack will find it eventually, so you can list YOUR isp's first, then some other nearby one's later and if your ISP fouls you up, it still works, just slower

I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.