1.for connecting all your PC you need ethernet card for every PC. configuring the IP address ex. 192.168.1.0/24 if you do not understand the IP you must read the basic of TCP/IP or i sugestion to you, to enter this address for your PC's : PC 1 : 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 PC 2: 192.168.1.2 netmask same above PC 3:192.168.1.3 netmask same above PC 4: 192.168.1.4 netmask same above
If your printer connected into you windows PC, you can configuring Samba in you other Linux PC. and you can use that printer for all PC. for modem, you just one is enough, if your modem connected into you Linux, you can use IP tables to share your modem connection to internet, or if your PC have installed mandrake you can configuring it with mandrake control center, there you can configuring your modem to share the connection to internet. I wish it can help you... i'm sorry my english and i wish you understan what i read.... Teddy W. Laksono Linux Power :)) --- "L.V.Gandhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 4 PCs. > 3 on dual boot with linux and windows(98 or me)and > one win98se. > one has built in 8139 lan card. How should I go for > networking these? > 1)what is the optimum ways if I have to include a > few more PCs. Dual boot ones > can be made only linux ones. > 2)what should I get in hardware? > 3)How to go about in configuring software so that > peripherals like printer, > modem attached one can be used by other and files > can be shared? > As a newbie in networking i need initiation and > advice > > -- > L.V.Gandhi > 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, > Visakhapatnam, 530017 > MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP > 530020 INDIA > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2
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