Alan: It seems you just want to play a little. Let's devide your fun into two separate projects: 1. Use modem on Linux box to access the WEB. 2. Seeing the linux box on the network neighborhood
These are two different animals. 1. Can you already access the WEB (Linmodem problem many have difficulties with)? If yes, next you need to give WEB access to others. The easiest to accomplish this is to use the Wizzards in the Mandrake Control Center. You may also want to install a firewall, so the good and bad guys on the WEB cannot see your W98 and ME boxes and do bad thing to them. It's a while since I used 8.1, (currently using 9.2) but I believe the standard firewall that Mandrake installs is Shorewall. It is text based but not too difficult to configure when you understand what it is doing. I can send you the config files and then you go from there and make adjustments. I think the Wizard will also configure a dhcp server. This will make things really easy on the Windows boxes. You just configure them to use dynamically assigned IP address, using DHCP. The dhcp server on the Linux box then tells the windows boxes where the gateway is (the IP address of the Linux box such as 192.168.0.1). You may want to get this resolved first because it gives you what you want. 2. You configure the samba using SWAT. This is the simplest way and it has a graphic interface. You need to install SWAT and turn it on in Mandrake Control Center in Services. Samba basically allows you to setup your linux box as a file server for your Windows folks. That is the main reason. Good luck Tom On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 07:51, Alan Ryland wrote: > Hi. > I am using Mandrake 8.1, and the version of Samba is 2.2. > I have a small network, using a pc with win 98, a laptop using ME, and > the linux machine. > The network "pings" each other ok. > I have read just about most things as to how to get the network to see > each other but, I cannott get any machine to see the Linux machine at all. > > I would like to set up the Linux machine to : use the modem for > internet. > : use the local printer as the network printer. > > Samba states that it is running. > > Please point me in the right direction to get this working. > > Alan Ryland
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