# A couple of n00b Fedora Linux questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 24, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-n00b-fedora-linux-questions/420297 "2007-09-24T13:47:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-n00b-fedora-linux-questions/420297/1 "2007-09-24T13:47:58Z")
I’m setting up a system with Fedora for a project at work. If this was an OS I was experienced in, such as VMS or Windoze, I would have no problems doing what I need. 1. How do I get out of the (X-?)window display to access the BASH command line? 2. I cannot see the ofther systems on the small network I’m using, and I presume it’s because I need to name the network domain. How do I do this? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-n00b-fedora-linux-questions/420297/2 "2007-09-24T14:08:05Z")
Found the answer to 1): Use the ‘Terminal’ option from the tool bar. ---
**Author:** ![larsenmtl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@larsenmtl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/larsenmtl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-n00b-fedora-linux-questions/420297/3 "2007-09-24T19:05:28Z")
First, did your Fedora box get on the network? I imagine without any other configuration it tried DHCP. No DHCP? You’ll have to set up the IP, gw, etc in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (where ethN is your NIC). Some commands (as root in a terminal): ifconfig - show you the status of your network interface (similar to ipconfig in windows) /etc/init.d/network status or /etc/init.d/network restart (network daemon - status of network interface, restart interface) If you got an ip address, can you ping any of the other boxes? Do you have DNS on the network? The file /etc/resolve.conf should point to your DNS or you can specify these directly in /etc/hosts Finally, what’s the rest of your network running? If you are trying to hit a windows share look into SAMBA/CIFS. Other linux boxes? NFS, all the way. To mount a windows share its: mount -t smbfs -o workgroup=domain,username=tridge,password=foobar //fjall/test /data/test Fedora probably has GUIs to do a lot of this, but I don’t know them. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-n00b-fedora-linux-questions/420297/4 "2007-09-24T19:21:18Z")
[QUOTE=VunderBob] 1. How do I get out of the (X-?)window display to access the BASH command line? [/quote] You usually don’t want to, but you can type Ctrl-Alt-F1. Type Alt-F7 to get back to the GUI. (And the graphical environment is just called X. People who call it X-Windows are parading their ignorance.) Opening up a terminal window is usually a better way of doing what you want: Unlike in DOS, there is really no such thing as a full-screen console application in Linux. > [@](#): > > 1. I cannot see the ofther systems on the small network I’m using, and I presume it’s because I need to name the network domain. How do I do this? Fedora should have graphical tools to do what you want by now. Poke around in the System menu or similar (I haven’t used Fedora since Fedora Core 5 and that’s been years now). ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-couple-of-n00b-fedora-linux-questions/420297/5 "2007-09-24T22:54:12Z")
Before I saw the other replies, I stumbled across Samba on my own, and I’ll try it tomorrow. The network is an isolated setup, with WinXP and Linux boxes on it. I want the Linux development box to act like Win network because I have lots of data to move both ways in the forseeable future.