UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have very basic question:

I have 2 windows sytem & 1 Unix system & wanted to put all three system into one network to each other.
what kind of other hardware I need? like cable , router?
can anybody tell me the configuration? like how to connect to external hardware to put into network?

Thank you in advance,

You just need a hub and have all the machine on the same network and subnet.

What are you trying to achieve by networking these computers, is it just for the purpose of sharing an internet connection or are you planning on setting up mounts and print shares?

You only need a hub and of course ethernet cards. to interconnect linux with you windows you'll have to configure samba. all you have to do is go to /etc/smb.conf and add you machine name (this name will be shown on the windows machine). add a user in by using useradd command so that windows can connect to you.
to use windows share use
mount smbfs -o username=xyz,password=abc //windowmachine/share /mnt/folder
i'm sorry if i've forgot something. give me you email and i'll send you the configuration file.
Regrads

Lets keep all relevant information exchanges on the board so that the next person who comes along can benefit as well.

Like chek said, it would make it easier if we knew what exactly you wanted to do with these network computers. Is it merely to browse the web? Share files? Set up a web server? Reply back and we'll try to help.

Something like would probaby be more useful

Wow,

I didn't know that we can mound Windows drives via sambha.

But on executing the command

mount smbfs -o username=xyz,password=abc //windowmachine/share /mnt/folder

it gave me error.
On researching i found out that i dont have the "smbfs" option.

On removing the "smbfs" option it gave me "permission denied", that i can remove by doing with root password, but the problem is what is "smbfs" option and without it will it mount Windows drives.

Also do i have to have the same user name in Windows and give him rights in that share.