As for network tools, what do you need? Samba is a windows file share server for linux, nmap is a network scanning tool, ethereal is a network sniffer ... you have many such tools.
thx for the replies.also i configured samba but i cannot see any windows machine my ISP may have disabled it cause i cannot see any machine on win xp too in my network places
thx for the replies.also i configured samba but i cannot see any windows machine my ISP may have disabled it cause i cannot see any machine on win xp too in my network places
You configured user level Samba share. My friend if your linux machine on which u configured samba is connected to another windows machine then just boot that windows machine and cick on network neighbourhood and you will see the samba share if u configured correctly. Should be same Workgroup both in Windows and Linux Samba configuration file.