Networking Linux Mandrake

[Khayman]

HELP somebody please. i am having a great deal of trouble putting a linus mandrake machine on a network.
The setup ie got is a 4 machine network controlled by a router. 2 machines are XP and the 3rd is Windows 2000. the 4 is ofcourse this one. while i can get internet on it (which comes in through the router) i cannot see any of the other machine on the network.
I have tried running the LISa thing and auto config the ReLISa but this does not seem to work!
Since i am very new to linux this may just be driver error - but it is driving me insane since all my stuff was put onto another machine on the network before the pre-linux-install format.
any help would be much appreciated!

[mikeheitz]

Hi Khayman,

I'm pretty much in the same boat. I've been able to configure Samba and SMBclient... but can't browse the network. However, I went to a command prompt and ran smbclient, and even though I got a couple errors, I was able to get to my share on my XP box.

I thought it very odd that it worked, so I went back into a file manager (Konqueror I think it was) and was then able to browse to the XP machine, but it bogged down very badly. I found a doc somewhere that says browsing the network with Linux (regardless of which file manager you use) wil be insanely slow.

[Khayman]

rats.
i just put linux on it as something different since it cant run XP properly. Maybe i should just go back to windows.
I was attempting to get it to see a second harddrive last night and mananged to corrupt the OS. which i reinstalled. now i dont have internet. this post is being done from one if the XP machines

[mikeheitz]

haha... well, welcome to the world of "wanting to learn". I have a second drive in my machine as well (it's my old gaming rig, since turned into a learning experience) and still can't figure out how to access the darned thing. I was able to get it formatted and all, but trying to access it is like getting candy away from a 2 year old.

Somehow, I managed to mount it and browse to it (again, from a command prompt) but I have so little time to play with it, I tend to forget what I did right!

Don't give up hope though. Check out all the sites that are in one of the other posts... there are a ton or links. Some user groups are good, some just tell you to read the MAN and brush you off. Also, go out and get a book... can't hurt.

[M.D.]

Khayman how did u managed linux to get internet through the router? I have a router 2. my comps pin geach other but the linux cant connect