I have posted this on the Linux forum also but the few people who know about it are making things kinda fage to a dummy like me.

I was just woundering if anyone here knows how to netwrk Linux?

Well, i used to have Fedora Core 3 on my laptop and i was able to network it. Right
now, im trying to think of how i did it....Which linux are you using?

That could mean a number of things:

How to set your IP address: Doing this permanently depends on the distribution. Temporarily, you can...

# /sbin/ifconfig [adapter] [ipaddr] netmask [netmask] up

Where [adapter] is the network device (usually eth0).
[ipaddr] is your IP address.
[netmask] is your netmask.

Permanently, you'll have to use a tool provided with the distribution (linuxconf? YaST?). Debian and Slackware require edits to configuration files directly.

Making a gateway/firewall requires NAT/IP forwarding.

I can help. What do you need to know ?

Me :D


I have posted this on the Linux forum also but the few people who know about it are making things kinda fage to a dummy like me.

I was just woundering if anyone here knows how to netwrk Linux?

All depends on what you want to do.

I like linux as a network and internet server. Firewall features are very good, now, with IPtables. Can network Macs and Windows, easily. Does DHCP, etc.

Alright the problem is I still can't read files or transefere data the only thing that is working for all of them is the wireless internet.

I would like to know what to do to set it up.

I am assuming it is between linux and windows over the network...

get samba up and running on your linux machine. It will allow you to share files with windows computers over the network.

SMB is probably installed by default on most flavors of linux. you might try starting it from the command line: /etc/init.d/smb start

You may need to use chkconfig to make smb service start automatically.

"chkconfig smb on"

Use the man pages to read up on smb. "man smb"

If SMB is not there you need to find the RPM for you flavor of linux and install it.

use a search engine on the web to get more information about using SMB and linux/windows networking issues.

ohh.. and you need to be root to do the configuring....

Me :D

Acctully it is betweenn Linux and Linux there is no windows involved yet.

You can still use samba for linux-to-linux if you anticipate the necessity of connecting from windows. For linux-to-linux, nfsd is far simpler than samba, though (although it won't work with windows except with the help fof some money).