Air - 3:53 am on Jun 2, 2001 (gmt 0)

You can still use DHCP, both machines will have an IP address, it's just that you don't need to configure the network on Linux other that saying you will use DHCP. The DHCP server on Sygate assigns all the necessary network parameters including IP address, it just saves you from doing it manually.

If you want to set up the machines to share files a la windows file and print sharing then check out "Samba" on the Linux machine. There's both a client and a server. If you just want to share windows resources with Linux then just the Samba client is required on Linux.