Basic Networking Help

[Landaras]

First off, thank you in advance for all who respond.

Here's the situation: two workstations, both running SuSE 8.2 Professional (with KDE 3.1). Both have valid IPs from my ISP, can connect to the Internet, and can ping each other by IP. File sharing is enabled through KDE, and both systems have shared folders available within the appropriate home directories.

However, I cannot get the boxes to see each other or share files with LinNeighborhood. Yesterday I was able to get the above arrangement working when one of the boxes was running Mandrake 9.1 instead. However, I much prefer having YaST, so would like to get this working with SuSE.

I'm not partial to LinNeighborhood, so I'm willing to look at other graphical clients (or even command-line programs if necessary). Again, thank you for your time.

[blobaugh]

In order for you to use LinNeighborhood you need to be running samba or windows. That is the reason you can't see your SuSe box. LinNeighborhood was designed to browse windows based networks, samba is the linux equivelent to windows networking.

[Landaras]

I was under the impression that LinNeighborhood was usable for both SMB shares and *nix shares. Perhaps I was wrong and Mandrake just modified it so that it would work in my situation.

I should add that I am dualing Win2k on both boxes, and each box can talk to its respective Windows install.

If LinNeighborhood is not the right tool for this job, what would you recommend for navigating SuSE 8.2 shares?