newbie question

[Tony Hammitt]

How do you have your network set up?  What kind of ethernet cards do
you have?  Do they work?  Can you ping, telnet, etc.?  Where is the
cable modem plugged into?  Does pump or dhcpcd give any feedback?

You only need samba if you want to share files from you Linux box to
your windows boxes.  Other than that, you will be using TCP/IP networking
from Linux almost exclusively, so the windows boxes shouldn't affect
(infect :-) it.

Let us know how you have the network set up and we'll probably get you
running quickly.

Regards,

Tony Hammitt

> Robert Willis wrote:
> 
> hello all
> 
> highhat here with a newbie question............
> 
> I have 2 boxes networked 1 running win2000 pro the other dual boot win98 and
> RedHat 6.0
> 
> Here's the problem..... I installed RedHat, everything went smooth as
> expected. all hardware recognized etc. but I can't get internet access! eth0
> using DHCP tried using the default client pump to no avail, then tried using
> DHCPcd
> made the changes to ifup and ifdown files still notta! Oh ya forgot to
> mention that i use RoadRunner cable access.
> 
> Do i need SAMBA?
> 
> thanx in advance
> sincerely confused
> HighHat

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