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Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) wrote:

After a rush of blood to the head, I got Steven's network programming book and installed RHL 8 on my old machine.. But predictably enough, I got stuck in no time... after some tinkering with my drives and an accidental partition format, I have RHL8 on dual boot working . But the network doesn't work...

So I have a machine running WinXP and lots of crunching power connected to my trusty P2 running Win98 and RHL8.

The trouble now is that WinXP and Win98 autodetect network settings and able to communicate with each other. RHL 8 on the other hand is struggling to activate the ethernet card which it has detected.

Task 1 : Activate the network card

assuming that u r using GUI.... as root try out "redhat-config-network-gui"

Task 2 : I think Samba is used to share files with Windows. What I need is to be able to browse the files on the Linux box via the Windows explorer and vice versa

to browse Linux stuff in windows u will have to setup Linux samba shares... use "redhat-config-samba"... setup samba user(s) and share(s)

to browse windows stuff from Linux u will have to mount windows partitions (shares) in Linux... try smbmount (man smbmount for format and options)... easiest... (if u need the mounting to be done automatically at boot-time u have provide proper entries in /etc/fstab... u can easily figure that out by seeing the other entires... the filesystem there will be smbfs) easiest.... try out third-party tools like smb4k or LinNeighborhood (downloadable from net)... I prefer the former....

Hope I helped...

Priyam. -=-=- ... "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - General George Patton (1885-1945)