Need some Network help...we've got linux boxes, wintendo's, we got em all, and they WON'T TALK!!

[RabeaticSquirrel]

The message is actually a little misleading, they do talk, just not share. Let me explain what I have, and what little I know, then I'll ask the questions. Inventory is:

@home connection
#1hub - internet connection made here with 2 machines connected
machine 1 - P150 running freesco, acting as firewall/NAT router
machine 2 - wintendo, independent of the freesco box, has it's own firewall

#2hub - 2 machines connected, all connections here are NAT behind firewall
machine 1 - PII400 game server
machine 2 - PII400 Linux client
soon to be machine 3 - wintendo machine most likely...

Ok, that may be a bit confusing, but I'm sure you can get the idea with a little thought. What I want to do is add a browsing functionality to my LAN side (behind my freesco box). That may not be the right term...hmmm...I want to be able to browse the Linux boxes, the same way you can with windows boxes. Now I know when I migrate the other windows box onto the LAN, I will use SAMBA for the windows box to see the Linux boxes. Now for the questions...

How do I make the Linux boxes browse each other? I've heard that you must use DNS (hence I need a DNS server) to do this? How do they see each other? Do you have a Network Neighborhood or anything of the like that allows you to browse?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

[Garion]

Unix isn't very user-friendly when it comes to file sharing. You'll need to study up on NFS mounts and how they work. That's the primary file sharing system used within Unix. It involves creating shares on the server and setting up the client(s) to mount them, usually by editing config files.

- G