Trying to set up a lan, and having lots of difficulties.
I have been editing smb.conf
Who or what is the master browser?? Mozilla???

My computers are now definitely talking, as to my great surprise, I printed from this computer on the printer connected to the other computer!!!!
But ssh 192.168.10 (the other computer ) gives connection refused. Where are the permissions stored??
Any tips?? I'm nearly there!!! Phew!!

The master browser is a computer on a windows network that stores information about computer names and workgroups on the network. It has nothing to do with mozila.

SSH again is completely sepertate - is sshd listening, post the output of:
netstat -nlp

Hi -

The "Master Browser" is Windows jargon for "the windows host computer on the LAN who knows all about the other Windows file and printer shares on the LAN". It's a Samba thing, responsible for emulating Windows shares on Linux.

Mozilla, of course, is a web browser. "Web browsing" related to HTTP network protocols; "windows shares" are related to Microsoft's NetBIOS network protocols.

Finally, SSH is yet a third, completely different thing.

What I'm saying is:
1. Connecting to the Internet and web surfing with Mozilla is one thing.

2. Setting up Samba to share disks and share printers with Windows PCs is a completely separate thing.

3. Using SSH to be able to securely initiate logon sessions and copy files back and forth with other Linux hosts is yet a third, completely separate thing.

4. You must troubleshoot and debug each of these independently.

'Hope that helps .. PSM

Three questions:
What do I need to browse my other computer, fixed ip 192.168.3.10?? On the oldcomp (ip 192.168.3.9) I use gnome and Fedora. The newcomp has Mandrake and gnome.
It cannot be that hard. Should I junk samba? I somehow thought it was the program I needed to connect to the other computer