Home network setup

[jimbaloo]

I would appreciate it if someone could point to a good tutorial on how to set up a home network. I have just finished putting together a 'new' computer from a lot of old parts I had lying around and I want to try setting it up as a server. I have two other machines to connect up to it, one of which runs winXP, and the other which runs xinXP, Fedora Core 2, and Slackware 10.1.
Thanks.

[drakebasher]

I would appreciate it if someone could point to a good tutorial on how to set up a home network.

There are none. But if you want something to read while you try to work things out, you may enjoy some of these:
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
or, more specifically:
http://rute.2038bug.com/node28.html.gz
Let me save you days with this: "it's all about the netmask".
Here's more:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/networking.html
maybe more 'to-the-point':
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/
The whole ball of wax:
http://www.vishwatech.com/networking/

Good luck. Lemme know how it ends....