Hello,

When I start my netscape prowser on linux box It is unable to open the localhost whose domainname is loaclhost.localdomain

I am able to http:// to my win machine running PWS but not telnet http:// or ftp to linux box

I guess you are talking about http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1.

How do I do this..

You need to have apache web server(httpd) running your machine. You can do it by using linuxconf and/or ntsysv. Where you can enable wu-ftpd, telnet too for ftp access to linux box.

Tip: You might want to use ssh instead of telnet.

Do I need to install samba.

I dont think you need samba atleast for this.

Amish.