I am a Linux newbie trying to learn my way around. I am well versed in Windows and DOS, and have a very basic understanding of Linux.
I am currently running a file sharing network, with a Windows 2000 PC as my main file server. I have tons of storage space on it, and have it configured with a static IP address. I also have a newly installed Fedora Core 4 Linux PC that I want to set up for file sharing (and hopefully eventually a domain controller for my Windows PC’s). I also have a few other Windows XP and Windows 2k PC’s set up for dynamic IP addresses.
I have a Linksys router that is handling DHCP assignments, and I currently do not have an internet connection set up on that network. I only use a dial up connection through my XP home PC.
I attempted to set up the Samba server on my Linux box, and thought I had it done correctly. For a while I was able to see my Linux computer using NET VIEW on my windows 2k PC, but I was never able to access the public share I set up. I also found that since trying to set this up, the Linux PC is now disrupting the network environment for my other Windows PC's. Browsing the network takes a long time and sometimes I get an error in Windows 2k telling me that the network environment is not available. When I shut down the Linux PC, my windows network returns to normal. I may have inadvertently screwed something up, but I don’t know enough about Linux or Samba to know what to do next. I also think my Linux PC is not using the DHCP services from my router, but I can’t be sure.
I would greatly appreciate any assistance that can be provided. I am also interested in learning command line methods for performing these tasks, mainly because those seem to be more uniform between Linux distributions than the GUI interfaces.
