Home Network Connections

[Tom Lombardo]

I am trying to get my laptop, running RedHat Linux 8, to connect to my
desktop, running Windows XP, both of which are attached to my Dell
router.  The desktop is attached with a cable, and the laptop is 
connected with a wireless card.

I can ping the router from my laptop just fine, and I can connect to the 
Internet as well (thanks to Fourmun, who replied to an earlier post to 
this excellent newsgroup). 

But I can't get the laptop to connect to the desktop so I can back up
files and use the printer.  I am using KDE and Konqueror, and I've gone
through the LISa set-up.  The network's name is "earthfirst" and the 
router's name is "my.router" and the desktop's name is "DESKTOP".  When 
I type in "lan://earthfirst" or "lan://my.router" or "lan://DESKTOP" in 
Konqueror or in the terminal window command line, the laptop can't 
connect.  I mention all of this becuase I think it is relevant.

Also, the "route" command does not work in my Linux terminal window, so 
I can't check to see what the laptop sees. When I type "route man" in 
the terminal I get the manual page for "route", but when I try to run 
the "route" command I get a "bash: route: command not found" error.  
This has happened to me before, where a command will show up in the 
manual but it won't run when I try to use it.  That seems weird to me.

If you have any suggestions as to how I can get my laptop to write files
on the desktop and use the printer, I would be very grateful.