Newbie problems. Trying to set up 3 computers on a home network (which work fine with windoz through my WRT54G router network of 4 computers). Cannot seem to get linux-based access to each of the other linux computers. Each box will access internet just fine - have dns numbers properly entered in System/Administration/Networking as far as I can gather. Also have the fixed ip address for each computer listed below the internet dns # (not sure if that's where they should appear). When I click on Places/Network Servers, the screen shows my Windows Network. No Ubuntu 6.06 running computers, files, etc show up anywhere though. All machines are dual booting. Tried a lot of user guides, help files, etc and I'm lost. A number of them only seem to deal with setting up a computer internet connection - not my stumbling block. Don't know if I should be doing this through programs such as firestarter or firewall builder for example or just setting up through let's say System/Administration/Networking as I suspect. I'm not yet very knowledgable with the Terminal although I'm slowly getting better. At present I'd prefer a gui approach to fixing this problem if at all possible, unless its really easy in terminal. Tia for any assistance.

Can you ping each of the linux computers?

From a terminal try

smbclient -L //<ip address>

where <ip address> is the address of one of the other computers. This should give you a list of all the shares on the other computer.

Thanks for replying. I entered ping -c 3 <ip#> for each computer (did process 3 times from each computer too) and received a 3 packets sent and 3 packets received response. When I did the smbclient -L//<ip#> entry however, I received an error msg stating both connection refused and connection failed. I was using ip addresses in the form of 192.168.1.### as I had done, when I originally set up the router network using WinXP. Through the gnome gui with System/Administration/Networking/Hosts I see a couple of local desktop, etc addresses beginning with 127.0.etc. Am I correct in using the 192.168 addresses or is that just a Windows thing? Don't know where to go from here. Thx.

Hmm, isn't Samba a client / server configuration ??

Are the Linux hosts configured to act as Samba servers with shared folders ?

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Share_files_using_Samba

dxqcanada: I had a look through Synaptic and although I have a few smb, etc installations present, I do not have Samba installed. As for the linux hosts, I have no idea how to check to see if they are configured for samba. Are you saying, that I should install samba to solve my connection problem? I don't have any experience with it yet, so I don't know. I thought samba was just used to share Windows and Linux files in 32 bit. Although accessing my Windows files from my linux machines was something I had planned on trying, when I got a little more conversant with Linux, my thought here was to just get the Linux boxes talking to each other. However if I can get the devil OS connected as well at the same time it would be a bonus I guess. Thx.

Samba is for file sharing between Linux and Windows. Linux to Linux is NFS. Both are optional installs. Do System-> Administration-> "Shared Folders" and it will help you along and initiate the necessary installs for either or both file sharing protocols.

Thanks George. Much appreciated. I'll work on this. Thanks to all for suggestions. Cheers.