[ale] Networking Linuxboxes

[n4zm at mindspring.com (zeb)]

On Tuesday 27 May 2008 11:28, Marc Ferguson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know this might be a silly question, but how do you network two or more
> linuxboxes.  I've done google searches on this and for the most part they
> write about SAMBA and how to network linux within a windows network.
>
> My wife, finally installed linux on her machine this weekend - happy day!
> She's running openSUSE 10.3 and I'm running Fedora 8.  I thought they would
> automatically see each other, but it looks like there is more to it than I
> originally thought.  Right now it's a simple peer-to-peer network, I don't
> know if we'll should do a client-server structure, but I'll listen to any
> suggestions.  Thanks.

Samba peer-to-peer does just fine with Linux.  There is a book ("using Samba") 
available online, for purchase, and included in Slackware that should tell 
you most or all of what you need to know.

Regards, Zeb