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Denton He wrote:
>
> i am unable to ping outside of my network, such as google.com

What is your route to google.com?  If it is via a gateway
on your network, do the following after the ifconfig for
your network card:
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route add default gw 192.168.33.1
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That assumes your gateway address is 192.168.33.1

You should then be able to reach google.com by using the
appropriate (numeric) address.  To reach google.com by 
name, you need a method to assign an address to the name.  
You could do this in /etc/hosts, but it is usually more 
convenient to use a name server (DNS).  If your network
has a name server, you can utilize it by putting its
address in /etc/resolv.conf

> Also i would like to access the drives and files on the 
> other computers on my LAN how can i do so?

It all depends on what network servers are running on 
those machines.  FTP?  NFS?  HTTP?  mcserv?  telnet?

Cheers,
Steven