[newbie] Linux Windows Network

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Ulwelling
When I installed linux it recognized my nic fine. Now that I am in it I don't know where to look to configure it, and other basic things such as actually connecting to a windows machine. Can you recommend links on setting up your nic as in what all the options mean an what you need to set up

Re: [newbie] Linux/Windows Network

2000-01-03 Thread R_Yeo
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Steven P Hull wrote: I've set up the Ethernet card manually and tried to ping the others but no luck. What am I doing wrong? Have I missed something?? For a start, can the Linux box see itself? Try pinging the Linux box from the Linux box using the IP address, instead

Re: [newbie] Linux/Windows Network

2000-01-03 Thread MichaelMeding
Hi, ok every Win machine has a tcpip number ? The linux box has a tcpip number ? The network interface card is recognized ? You can ping yourself on the linux box ? Ah btw, you have to use samba if you are going to do more than tcpip web or ftp transfers. But anyway a ping should go through.

[newbie] Linux/Windows Network

2000-01-02 Thread Steven P Hull
I have 9 computers running Windows 98 used in a simple Microsoft network I want to set up a webserver for the network using Linux-Mandrake 6.0 but can't seem to get the Ethernet card or the computer to be seen by them or for the Linux machine to see the Windows98 workstations. I've set up the