[newbie] Greetings

[Seraph]

Hi, my name is Seraph. I've been watching the list for almost a week now, and I've been attempting to search for docs. So I could try to find some sort of info to answer what seems like it should be a simple question... Now for the scenario: I am running Mandrake 8.2 (My first real run at Linux... I tried redhat for about 2 days and couldn�t stand it, but knew I wanted something other than Winblows as a workstation/server, only for the time being till I get more proficient with it. It's sitting behind my trendnet router along w/ the rest of my network. I have been able to fumble my way though so that it now is able to see the Internet, and see the rest of my network. I am however, unseen by my windows network. I can get into the win 98 machine and browse it like I was right there, and even alter files... I can see my win 2k server, but cannot log into it (separate issue). I am completely invisible to the win boxes though. I have tried configuring and reconfiguring netconf, I choose Winbrowsing and can see them... but they can't see me. I have checked smb://my_winbox_ip and can get in that way also, so I know Samba is running. I have gone through and setup my workgroup, and even have found where to log into the workgroup. So, now I know that I'm not just spying on the workgroup, but have actually taken steps to try to join it. I am stumped as to why I am invisible. I would be proud if that was my intent, but I actually want quite the opposite in this instance. Any help, and/or questions to the effect of... well you didn't mention anything about this. Did you check there? Would be highly helpful. The more pointed out, the more I know to look at and for. I just ask that along with the question, perhaps some sort of idea of how/what to and not to actually configure would also be nice. Or even a source for instructions. I am not fluent w/ the man pages by any stretch of the imagination.   Thanks in advance,   Seraph