Hi gang,

Late this past winter, I set up a Fedora Linux box at work, mainly as an internet terminal, as a low-cost way to get the business up to date with the ability to open MS Office & other documents sent to us from customers. My boss liked Fedora Core II & the associated open source software so much, he has asked me to set up a small Linux network. The thing is, I've never set up a Linux network before so I'm here to hopefully benefit from your experiences.

I have set up a few simple networks in the past: Appletalk, Apple Ethernet and an old Lantastic Ethernet.

What I want to do is set up the existing FC2 box (PIII-500) along with two other FC2 boxes (PIII-600), all with Dosbox installed, and let them have access to an AMD K6 running Win 98. We have a DOS jobshop program & associated data files (shipping & receiving type software) that I want to allow the FC2 boxes access to with the aid of Dosbox.

How difficult is it to get FC2 to talk to Win 98? I see that FC2 can be installed with some form of Windows networking support. What pitfalls should I expect?

Thanks in advance for any help you all can offer!

This is really pretty easy.
Share files on the Win box, and add "Client for Microsoft Networks" into the adapter stack.
Then, simply use Samba to mount it on the FC boxes (there's a boatload of samba How-To's here).