Hi, I've recently installed Red Hat Linux 5.2. I've also installed KDE. My objective is to setup a home network to learn about Linux. I've found the HOW-TOs and documentation on networking to be excellent, but I have trouble mapping to my own installation. The doc refers to files not on my system, .... I have still started from inittab and from there it's a mess. I have two nic cards, configured and all. One will be connected to a ADSL modem soon. For starters, I want to connect my laptop (I have a little Intel hub) to my "server". I installed a DNS and it looks ok. I may have a few problems with netmasks and routes, but localhost pings both ways. I also installed a class C network IP address and mapped it as a DNS. I'm also looking at installing Samba (it is installed but it needs to be configured). Now a problem I have is that most of the stuff starts OK, but sendmail is slow to start (looking for something and then time's out), so is htppd, smb, ... Can someone point this newbie to docs that map really well to Red Hat 5.2? It's got to be easy! In the mean time, I'm reading up on Linux and hope I can learn quick cause I'm anxious to get things connected (my old Microsoft habits I'm trying to kick. Thanks and I'm glad to be aboard and working on the real deal! Mike Harding - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
