Rodd Ahrenstorff <rahrenstorff at yahoo.com> wrote: > > This is my first attempt at networking with LInux. Ok...I have clean > install of Mandrake 8.1 at work. Our NT based LAN uses a DHCP server, > and this serves up the IP address to my Linux client just fine. I can > get out on the internet through our gateway router. However I cannot > browse the network since I cannot login to the PDC. I know I must use > SAMBA. I checked my installed packages and SAMBA client shows up. What exactly are you looking to do here? Do you need to browse the network, or just access the resources on the network? I haven't seen many good browsing tools for Linux, but you can certainly access things if you know what to go for. Also, a new tool (library?) called `winbind' was recently released to allow Linux users to log in using their NT usernames and passwords. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ What's that strange orange / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ glow from our room? Oh, \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) it's the Sun. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011103/ea9e8c96/attachment.pgp