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munruh
04-30-2002, 02:23 AM
I am trying to network two Linux boxes together. I am able to ping each other, so I have a good physical connection. I have the addressing correct. There are currently only two computers, mine and my sons. I am running Red Hat 7.2 and he is using Mandrake 8.1. First I want to understand how to network the two Linux boxes, then I would like to connect in some W2K machines. Any help would be appreciate. Any pointers? Good how-to's? Whatever.

:confused:

Do I have to mount the network connection to access it? Do I need to use ftp. I know how to network W2K and Win98 okay. With windows there is 'My Network Places' and 'Network Neighborhood', what is Linux's equivalent. I *know* windows and linux aren't equivalent, don't miss understand me. ;)

If I get this going at home I want to load Linux on the computer that we used on the network for backing up on.


Heading into the unknown. . . . . but enjoying it. :)

Jimstep
04-30-2002, 08:53 AM
You need to run SAMBA on the Linux machines to be able to talk to Windows.

If you are sharing peripherals between the two Linux machines, enable NFS, network file system.