Lilo and Red Hat 6.1

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi,

Ok, I took the easy way out and reloaded everything - started from two
squeaky clean hard drives and now it all seems to be working OK.

However, I now have the problem of trying to get this machine on my network
and I haven't had any experience with getting two linux machines to talk to
each other. I have just spent over two hours searching through the HOWTOs
and I still don't understand a word of them!!!!!

At the moment I can ping my other two machines from the new linux box and I
can smbmount the windows box onto it but I can't see this new linux box from
either of my other machines. So, for a start, where have I gone wrong here?

Second problem is that I don't know how to 'mount'? one linux machine onto
the other. I found one command in one of the HOWTOs and tried it but it came
back saying something about not being able to start RPC or something.  Can
anyone offer a 'Janet and John' description of how to actually transfer
files across a linux network or otherwise get the machines talking to one
another. At the moment I think I would have more success getting an elephant
to talk to a fish!! ;o(

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK



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