Thanks for keeping up with my progress TO. Well I have since installed VMWare and I am running Red Hat 9 as a guest OS. I am still trying to configure the network but I think I am making progress,...

Well I do have shared folders in machine A that can be seen in machine B, but I think you're right about the whole XP Home XP Pro thing, I'll play around with it a lil more and see if I can get it to...

Thanks again TO, I'll try that and let you know.

Ok, Machine A connected to cable modem via usb port, and then connected to machine B via ethernet card, with a straight through cable, no router or switch. Machine A running XP home, machine B...

Thanks for replying TO. Well I configured the samba server and I can see the windows network from the Linux machine and vice versa, plus the internet connection works too. Now my only problem is that...

This is the output of ifconfig

[root@localhost root]# ifconfig eth0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:FF:6C:0F:A5

inet addr:192.168.0.188 Bcast:192.168.0.255 ...

Thanks for replying,
I decided to update to update to RH9 and I havent yet configured the network settings, but if I am getting problems, I will post again.

I'm new to the Linux game sp please bear with me. I installed Red Hat 8 on my machine running XP pro on Microsoft Virtual PC. The install went pretty ok but I am having problems connecting to the...