people,
can anyone help me, trying to connect in a network LINUX with WINXP, if I send a PING a have response, how do make them see each other?
Thanks very much

well it depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want to be able to access the other box from the command line, one of the boxes needs to run a daemon listening for request. One of the easiest and cheapest ways of doing this is to install cygwin (free) on your Windows box. This will give you a linux like command prompt on your windows box. While installing be sure to select both ssh and sshd.

if you run sshd (from either Win in Cygwin or in linux) you can then ssh to that machine from your other box. This will also give you the ablity to copy files from one box to another using the scp command.

Of course there are several other means of setting up communication between any two boxes, but this method provides alot of functionality and can be a good learning proces in and of itself.