Enabling Networking and Samba sharing in Fedora 11-12

Hi again..

By default networking remain disabled in Fedora 11/12 ( LAN card status down ). Even there  IP Address is properly configured . So here is the procedure.

First of all assign  IP address and DNS properly.

[root@satish~]#setup

now select Network Configration

and assign IP address.

Now edit your   ifcfg-eth0 file

[root@satish~]# vim /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

and set ONBOOT=yes   in this file as shown below:

Now save this file by pressing :wq!

Now restart network daemon by following command:

[root@satish~]#/etc/init.d/network/start

Now  open your firewall ( iptable ) for 

Samba ,Samba client and other required services and add eth0 into your trusted interface:

now restart your firewall service by 

[root@satish~]#/etc/init.d/iptables/restart

in this way you can enable networking in your machine and can add linux machine into your Network.

                                                                              .............Satish Malanch