<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:16 PM, James Sumners <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't understand what you are wanting to do. Are you wanting to<br>
share files? Or do you want to share the internet connection through<br>
one of the macines? Or something else?<br>
<br>
If it is sharing files, the simplest solution is SAMBA or NFS. I<br>
usually use SAMBA since it essentially does auto-discovery and I don't<br>
have to setup specific connections.<br>
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2008/5/27 Marc Ferguson <<a href="mailto:mferguson@digitalalias.net">mferguson@digitalalias.net</a>>:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I know this might be a silly question, but how do you network two or more<br>
> linuxboxes. I've done google searches on this and for the most part they<br>
> write about SAMBA and how to network linux within a windows network.<br>
><br>
> My wife, finally installed linux on her machine this weekend - happy day!<br>
> She's running openSUSE 10.3 and I'm running Fedora 8. I thought they would<br>
> automatically see each other, but it looks like there is more to it than I<br>
> originally thought. Right now it's a simple peer-to-peer network, I don't<br>
> know if we'll should do a client-server structure, but I'll listen to any<br>
> suggestions. Thanks.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Marc F.<br>
<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Hi All,<br><br>Thanks again for the replies. What I want to do is mostly file sharing. We are on a switch and sharing the Cable connection through a Linksys router. We can ping each other's IP addresses, but not our hostnames.<br>
<br>I'm a little lost with hostnames. I changed mine from "localhost.localdomain" to "marc.linux" and I think my wifes is "katina-linuxBox" (yes a hyphen). We did this using the GUI networking option - I'm afraid of the /etc path. I can see in the router's DHCP list katina-linuxBox, but mine is blank. We both know each other's IP, but I don't know if my hostname applied properly.<br>
<br>I have SAMBA running because I was trying to get it to work with a Windows machine I have on the network (which was unsuccessful), but she doesn't have SAMBA running. I thought SAMBA was specifically for sharing linux/windows resources with each other. I didn't know it could also be used to share linux resources with itself. Noob thinking, but linux networking is new to me since I now have to think of components and not just peer-to-peer in a Windows environment.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Marc F.<br><br>"..Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come.." -Rev1:4