Setting up a small LAN - a cry for help

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Nixon wrote:
> I'm a newbie when it comes to LINUX networking. Bu I'm trying really
> hard to learn. I'm not a newbie when it comes to computers, having loads
> of experience with OS/2 and DOS, but that lies many years back. I have
> *no* experience with LANS, and only an ordinary user's experience with
> LINUX.
> 
> My topology: An ADSL router connected to a switch connected to my LINUX
> COMPUTER and my wife's Windows ME computer, and occasionally my laptop
> running Win XP Pro (necessary because of my work).
> 
> All I want to do is have my wife's computer share files. 
> 
> I've been reading the "Red Hat Fedora Linux 3 Bible" and Googling the
> Internet for some kind of step-by-step user guide to setting things up,
> but to no avail.
> 
> I've managed to have my wife's computer see mine, as "localhost", but I
> can't get any further. I'm totally lost.
> 
> I have lots of shares on my wife's computer, with which I have no
> problems seeing when I connect my laptop running Win XP Pro.
> 
> I've been lurking her since my son, who services an international Linux
> network for a large oil company, which shall remain nameless, gave me a
> computer running Linux as a birthday gift. I'd ask him for help, but he
> lives 30 km. away, and has just moved, and is busy unpacking. I was
> hooked on Fedora, just as I'm hooked as OS/2, which I'll try to network
> as soon as I get this basic stuff working.
> 
> Anyway, can anyone help me with a 1-2-3 user guide? Or a reference to
> one. I'm stumbling around here with IP adresses, DHCP and all that. I'm
> reading a lot, and understanding less.

Try this one:
http://www.brennan.id.au/

It's probably much more than you need, but should be of help.

Paul.