Hi, having trouble with networking

From: Mmm_moo_cows (mmm_moo_cows_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: 14 Nov 2004 07:37:07 -0800

Hello,

Sorry if this is a well worn topic, but been searching out there for
the past week and I'm getting nowhere,dont want to go back to windows
XP!

Could anyone reccomend a good (basic) networking tutorial for a
beginner in linux. I have setup modem and internet, but would like to
share internet to 4 windows XP pc's and I amd completely stuck and
tutorials on the web I have found just dont help.

In a bit more detail,

New to linux and having a bit of trouble networking. I'm in a student
house, 4pc's running win xp and a server pc. This server pc was
sharing the internet connection (adsl) and acting as a fileserver.
However, with windows XP I'm having to reinstall it every month
becuase it just slows down after a bit then crashes all the time (no
idea why) which is why I want to change it to a unix/linux server.

So, bought redhat (not too sure which version, a new one maybe 9 (has
iptables)). Managed to install it fine. Got some drivers for my
modem (bt voyager -EciADSL drivers from http://eciadsl.flashtux.org/)
and got all that setup, so I now have the internet installed and
working.

My trouble lies in basic networking and sharing the internet
connection. My network car has been recognised by redhat and it seems
to be installed.

I ran netconfig from the console and assigned it 192.168.0.1 adresses
with matching gateway etc address (it filled it in one the main ip was
entered).

however, I cannot seem to ping it from my windows xp machine (I thinlk
I havent set it up correctly).

So here comes my real problem. Searchin on the internt, news groups
and tutorials found a handful of tutorials, but all are different and
all have not helped me.

So, could anyone recommed any good tutorials, or even better help us
in the right direction.

Not to sure also about the windows configuration side, but every time
I utter the word windows in a search on google I get so many unrelated
pages.

Thanks for any help.

Jon

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