>>>>I finally made my mind up and got two NICs for setting up my minimal network.
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>>>So this linux machine is going to be a firewall/masq'er and run samba?
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>>No, but I plan to set it up as domain/master.
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>Ahh... So the two NICs aren't in the Linux machine?
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>>I will try that command. I don't know if I should invest more time with 6.2 or just get 7.0 installed. Is RH7.0 available for download? Does it have an upgrade path? I couldn't find any links on the Red Hat site.
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>ftp.ibiblio.org
>You will find iso's there. If you do go to 7.0 I recommend that you do a clean install. There are some major major differences between 6.2 and 7.0, and 7.0 is still a little buggy. If you do install 7.0, make sure that you get the updates for it immediately, there is a bug in the auto-update agent that will use up all of your system inodes in 10 days. Don't expect to be able to compile a kernel easily in 7.0. Red Hat goofed with the compiler and you have to pass a couple parameters to pre-2.2.18 (not released) kernels to get them to compile.
>So in all honesty, I would stick with 6.2 for now.
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>>The drivers are installed, but when I try to access 3COM NIC doctor for configuration it says there are no NIC's installed.
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>This is in the NT machine, right? Is this the machine with 2 NICs?
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>>Now that last part got me thinking: when I do smbclient -L myhostname it lists the NT wks machine. Am I dreaming here or does the NIC needs to be working for this to happen?
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>hahahahaha.... Yeah, the machine would have to be on the local net fo samba to see it. I would check machine names and cables to see if maybe that is just an misunderstanding... =)
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>j

Each machine has only one NIC. I am researching the use of software that allows the Linux PC access the internet connection on my NT machine.

Yesterday I started playing with the current configuration and it seems the two NICS can see each other. On the NT machine I can ping the Linux PC from a cmd window but not through the Network Neighborhood. The Linux PC can also ping the NT one. This works only with IP numbers, not by name.

I'll keep digging into this. Although I will probably return one of the NICs and just get a new PCI for the NT machine. I was going for two NIC's of equal models and since the Linux PC does not have PCI slots I went for the two ISAs.

Thanks,