The world is a happy place again.
I finally was able to make some excellent progress (well, for me it is). I have my Linux machine pinging the NT 4 machine and vice -versa. What is really interesting is that not only can I ping from the NT (to Linux), but I am also able to telnet to Linux. And if I first start my Dial-up account manually on Linux, I can use Lynx (via telnet from NT) and browse the web (in textual format, ofcourse).
I am still trying to setup the samba file(s) so I can use the printer and files (currently on Linux) from NT, but haven't had much luck yet. But right now I'm just happy to able to connect the two, finally.
And now that it's done--I can't believe how bloody difficult it is to setup networking on Microsoft products. I thought I would have problems on the Linux side--wrong! Maybe it was beginners (read 'newbie') luck, but Linux was the easiest. It was actually more Plug-and-Play than Win 98. NT was easier, but not as much as the Linux setup. And if I wasn't such a newbie, I probably would've had everything set by now. But slowly and surely, it's getting there.
Having said that, I do need some tips on setting up samba, or info on the best way to share the Linux printer and modem with NT.
The samba file that is on my pc, is that sort of a template? Can I make a copy of that and start from scratch? I went to the site you mentioned last time and found some scripts, but I didn't quite understand how they would fit into the current smb.conf file. What I was planning to do was copy the script(s) to a blank smb.conf file and, hopefully, fine-tune it as required.
Again, thank you very much for all the info and help with my setup.
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