how to setup a network on linux based pc's

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so i need info ...how to make configutarion..of network settings, to be able to access shared folders on the network...
i have 2 linux pc's and 3 windows pc's...there is no problem in the windows its easy to configure windows network setting...
but the problem exist in the linux based m/c's ...

OK, so you are trying to perform action like folders sharing in your network with a mix of windows boxes and linux boxes.

So you need to perform three types of setup configurations (i.e. Linux to Linux, Linux to Windows and Windows to Linux)

1. Linux to Linux

To setup Linux to Linux directories sharing, you need NFS. See the FAQ 7 of the following link or search for NFS on the linux site.

http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Network_FAQ

2. Linux to Windows

To share Linux directories to windows machine, you need SAMBA. See FAQ 9 from the above link.

3. Windows to Linux

To share windows folders to Linux boxes, do the following:

3.1. Get the windows machine name or IP address (for example: WINBOX1)
3.2. Get the shared folder's name (for example: SHARE1)
3.3. Set it up on the windows box as usual.
3.4. On the Linux side, first create a directory as a mount point

$ su
#mkdir /media/winbox

3.5. Then run the mount command to mount the windows folder to the machine.

# mount -t smbfs //WINBOX1/SHARE1 /media/winbox -o username=xxx,password=yyy

Just created a FAQ 14 on the same link above, for more detail please check it out there.

Rgds,
Chip