I cannot in any way, shape or for, agree with that. My first Linux domain controller was working on production after a couple of weeks of study, starting from about zero knowledge of Samba.Conclusion: There is no way for an individual user, even one with decades of computer experience, to set up a Linux LAN.
Reading your post, it seems to me that your problem lies with some misconfiguration on that router you are using between the Linux machine and the Windows machines.
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