Joining Linux PC to Win Network

Need more info:

Is your network card being dtected?

If so how do you connect to the internet dsl, dial up, cable?

Have you configured your network settings to your linux box to match the windows?

Have you configured samba?

Thanks. The network card has bben detected and I have configured it.
The network i want to join (same network on which the windows is), is connected to the internet via a cale modem.
I have not configured samba. I'll try doing that. but does it mean the Linux has to physically join gthe windows domain/workgroup before it can get acess to the internet??

Thanks.

May be it's just a bit miss configuration.
Try doing this...

$ping mail.yahoo.com ( yahoo.com is just an example, you may use another host)

if it said something like 'host not found' or 'unknown host' , try edit /etc/resolv.conf and add your dns server like this format

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy

change x and y with your dns server.

if no errors found, it should return like this

PING login.yahoo.akadns.net (66.218.75.184) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from l1.login.vip.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.75.184): icmp_seq=1 ttl=238 time=252 ms
64 bytes from l1.login.vip.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.75.184): icmp_seq=2 ttl=238 time=247 ms
64 bytes from l1.login.vip.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.75.184): icmp_seq=3 ttl=238 time=257 ms

if you got error like 'Network is unreachable',
you may check your connection to your gateway server in your LAN,

try this command

$/sbin/route add default gw xx.yy.zz.nn ( change this with your gateway ip address)
then try the "ping" command above

if all this steps works and still can't make you get in to internet. Please let me know, and it will be great if you also include error message you got.

No you don't need samba to access the internet.
That's just "plain" routing and interface
configuring. like described.
samba is only needed you you need access to
windows shares and printers.

Hi
How did u configure ur network? Did u use graphical client or linuxconf or simply netconfig??? If you tell me what class of network ur using,I maybe help you.

rgds,
Dillip

Yes. To operate on a network you must have a unique IP address for each machine (and OS). A host must be present to provide the necessary services. Windows (ME,2k,XP) services do this through auto-negotiation. Many routers assign addresses via dhcp and they do this based on the MAC address reported by the NIC in the machine.
If all the other machines are left on and you reboot into Linux, the simplest way to handle it is to set-up multi-homing (a virtual NIC) with it's own IP address and use that for your networking in Linux. You can do it with the graphic tools from the desktop. On a small network, you can assign it a specific and permanent address on the router and in the hosts file in each machine. There are many ways to do this, I am just mentioning one of them.