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

[Philip Scott]

Righto

First thing (I suspect) you want to to is get it online through your windows 
machine. As root, type at a console:

route add default gw 192.168.0.1

There is probably a better way of doing this so that SuSE will do it every 
time you start up, but this will do for testing :)

If you want to be able to browse your linux machine from windows, then you 
need to install/switch on either samba (the windows filesharing system) or 
ftp. Ftp is probably a bit easier to set up, but samba will mean that your 
linux machine looks like a windows one on the network.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html

Tells you all you need to know. It ammounts to this: fiddle 
with /etc/samba/smb.conf, then run 'smbd'. Again, there is probably a SuSE 
wizard or something for doing this - might make your life a bit easier!

If you want to browse your windows machines from linux, and are in KDE (which 
is probably the case with SuSE) - you should just be able to type 
smb:/bobscomputer where 'bobscomputer' is the windows name of a computer.
smb:/192.168.0.1 should probably work as well.

Hope this helps!

Regards,

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