Setting up network

[Volker Kindermann]

Hi Bill,


> I got the IP address of one of the other computers and then went to
> the Linux machine and used the terminal window and pinged the windows 
> computer and got a repeating message as follows
> 
> 64 bytes from 192.168.123.100 and etc.
> That is the IP address of the windows computer and I assume it was 
> seeing it.

good. So you have a network connection between these boxes.


> What I meant by seeing the other computers was with windows you have a
> network window that shows all the networked computers and when you
> click on one it show what is being shared and you can click on that
> icon and get into the drive or whatever is being shared.

I expected that you mean such a thing. It is doable, but it's not easy.
You must install samba on the FC2 Box. Best if you search the internet
or the Red Hat documentation for Howtos. If you get stuck this list will
help you.


Good luck
Volker