[Nottingham] Laptop arrived - now for networking.....

[David Aldred]

Hello, all!

My Linux laptop arrived this morning - all seems to work...

Now then - how do I get the thing to talk to my XP machine? The XP 
machine needs to remain the main machine in the little network, since it 
has other machines connecting to it, and I can't replace its functions 
with a laptop!

If I connect the network cable to the laptop, and tell it to use IP 
address 192.168.0.11 (the 'main' machine is already set as 192.168.0.1), 
I can ping both ways and get no packet loss - so the connection is 
there.  Windows network browsing just doesn't know there's anything 
attached, though, and I don't yet even really know where to look on the 
Linux machine to see what it's got connected.

Linux system is Suse 8.1 personal.

Where do I start?

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