Re: where is network neighborhood?

From: ray (ray_at_zianet.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:20:34 -0700

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:34:39 +0200, Joachim Mæland wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:08:09 +0800, Tsun Szu wrote:
>
>> I am a Linux newbie and have just installed RH9.0 into 5 of my PCs and there
>> are 5 more to go. All 5 PCs can access the internet by way of the router
>> gateway. The PCs were previously networked using Win98. I am
>> changing the OS to RH9.0 for all the PCs and only want to do a peer-to-peer
>> network. There is no server requirement. I have chosen the Gnome desktop.
>> Hostnames and IP addresses have been configured in all PCs although I don't
>> see a requirement for a workgroup name when doing a network configuration
>> setup .........or is there a workgroup name that I need to configure?
>>
>> My question is........where is the Linux equivalent of a network
>> neighborhood or network places? I don't know where to find the machines ???
>> Help
>
> LinNeighborhood is the name of a nice GUI program for the
> client part of your requiered functionality. For the server part, Samba,
> (samba-server), is the answer. Samba-swat or just SWAT is the name of a
> GUI program to help in configuring Samba.
>
> Samba is _NOT_ as beginner friendly as it's Wintendo counterpart, but
> IMHO much more configurable and stable.
>
> Regards
> Joachim Mæland

No need for Samba if he's changing all the PC's to Linux. Share files with
NFS, printers with CUPS, scanners with Sane, etc.

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