yesterday i installed 8 virutal machines using VMware, the purpose was just to practice some security, kind of like a wargame. i have winxp, win2kserver, win2kpro, redhat 6.3, slackware, freeBSD, win2003, and conectivia linux.
my question is how do i use exploits??? i know you use nmap or satan to search for vulnerabilities, but how do you exploit them??
any tutorials, site, faq???

btw.. i searched for google for "exploits for begginers", "how to use exploits", "using exploits" with no luck. it just says to run gcc -c exploit.c but there has to be more meat.

thanks