Help with setting up home network

["Eric A. Bonney" <mailinglists@vanhlebarsoftware.com>]

Can anyone point me to some docs that would help me configure my home 
network?  I have one machine that is setup as a file/web/mail server and 
then I want to access it from my laptops and desktops.  These machines 
are a mixture of XP and Debian machines.  Currently I am most intrested 
in getting access to the server from the debian machines first.  I have 
tried using Samba and NFS, but I am having difficulty getting write 
access to the drives.  I can get read access to them and I can copy 
stuff from the drives, but I can not get write access to the drives from 
the laptops etc.

Thanks,
-Eric