If you are connecting 2 computers via their NIC cards, make certain you are using one of those "crossover" cables and not a straight one (like you connect to the ADSL modem). Your machines should "see" each other before you go any further, so get the pinging to work first.
I had trouble with my machine and SuSE 9.3 trying to get the DHCP service to work (it does an automatic addressing). If you only are connecting a couple of machines, use static IP addresses and skip the DHCP stuff.
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