I have a Linux machine an iMac and three windows XP machines on a wired LAN at home. The linux machine sees the XP and iMAc and is even able to access the folders. But the windows and Mac machines do not even show the Linux machine when I look at the network places or eqvlt in MAc. WHere is the setup for XP and Mac to be able to see the Linux box?

You need to setup Samba appropriately on the linux machine.

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I guess you are using Samba, but you didn't say so?

Does the Linux machine have anything shared? If not it won't show up in Network Places.

Are the nmbd and smbd daemons both running on the Linux machine? IIRC nmbd provides NetBIOS name services.

Oh, and unless your network spans multiple routers I don't think you are doing internetworking.

I am sorry, I am using Samba. Everything I know of Samba is set properly. But please let me know what should be the correct settings. WHen I said "interworking" I meant working between the computers and not anything else.

Oh I forgot. The filesystem and the computer are shared. smbd is running but I dont see nmbd

I'm guessing that might have something to do with it. I wonder what would happen if you tried the following?

When I did a start on the nmbd it said it is already running so smbd and nmbd are running. DO you need a lmhosts file for networking? the file is still in a zipped state in //usr/share/man/man5 folder

After some minor chnages to the smb.conf file now when I go to network in places and click on the windows network I get an error message that says "unable to mount location" "failed to retrieve shared lists from server". I used to get this message but dont know how I got rid of the problem.
I am guessing something in the conf file needs changing but dont know what!!!!

Sorry, I don't understand what could have gone wrong here. I recommend reading the documentation of Samba.