Hi there...just my $.02 on this subject.
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>I *think* I have Samba set up correctly. What I believe I may have set up
>incorrectly is networking. I have my Linux machine and my Windows machine
>plugged into the same ethernet hub, but other than that I'm not doing
>anything special to get them connected except for
>"ifconfig lo down"
>"ifconfig eth0 204.180.205.31 netmask 255.255.255.0 up"
I don't think you want to do the "ifconfig lo down" here. This is the
internal loopback device and some programs will need it to work properly.
It also doesn't interefere with the other networking devices.
Jer