> I'm not surprised it failed though, because the linux box isn't networking
> yet, that's my whole point.
In that case, the various samba docs won't help you. You need the Ethernet
HOWTO, and the IP HOWTOs (unless they've been superseded).
Couple of quick things to check:
* Does your kernel have an ethernet driver compiled into it, or as a
module? When booting, look for a line starting 'eth0:' - if you see it, the
net card is visible to Linux. You could also type 'cat /var/kmsg | grep
eth0' at a shell prompt to check.
* If you're using modules, find the module for your NIC and insmod it.
* Once you have a NIC installed, type 'ifconfig' to see if anything's
configured yet. You then need to do (from memory):
ifconfig addr=<your ip address> netmask=<your IP netmask> dev=eth0 (or
perhaps that's if=eth0)
route add <ip network> <your ip address>
( route add default gw <gateway on network, if you have one> )
* Finally, type ifconfig and route to make sure your changes took affect,
and then try pinging another machine on the network. If it all works,
great, add these commands to the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 script, if not, it
didn't work, you need more help from somone who knows RedHat better than I
(long live Slackware).
Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)
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