Notebook on Windows Network

[Paul Howarth]

Denham Eva wrote:
> I have managed to organize a notebook with which to work and am 
> struggling to get my notebook running on our Windows Network.
> Please be patient I am a Linux fan and use it at home but a single PC 
> environment.
> So I have managed to get the machine to pick a DHCP ip address, I have 
> Samba running so I can see the machine from the network.
> But on the notebook itself, it only sees the localhost, does not see the 
> rest of the network.

These statements appear to be inconsistent; if another machine on the 
network can "see" your notebook, your notebook *must* be able to send 
packets to the network and not just localhost.

What are you trying to do with your notebook that you cannot do?

Paul.