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To: Scumbria who wrote (123687)	12/24/2000 12:28:35 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, re:linux/wondows Look for a Linux software package and documentation called Samba. It will be on your Linux CD and may have already installed it. Then you can add a GUI called "LinNeighborhood" which simulates the Network Neighborhood your use to. You will have to download the LinNeighborhood rpm. steve

To: Scumbria who wrote (123687)	12/24/2000 3:33:37 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

scumbria, My next big task is to get it to connect to my Athlon WindowsME machine. I'm able to ping it over the ethernet, but have no idea how to make Linux and Windows talk to each other in any meaningful fashion. Start by putting both machines on the same subnet, then load Samba onto the Linux machine. Don't forget to disable the NT Domain server option within Samba. Samba, if you didn't know lets you use NFS/UFS space as an SMB mounted share within Windows. Good for file transfers between the boxes. You may have to disable "Encrypted" passwords within Windows via a registry key setting. It will be documented in the docs directory in the samba distribution. Fire up an Apache web server on the Linux machine as another way to quickly get files from UNIX to Windows. Also, let's you play webmaster if you're into that kind of thing. I have lot's of experience with Samba and NT, two Sun Ultra II's supporting 800 engineers NT access to a couple of terabytes of NFS space. Also, Apache web servers and other UNIX stuff, 15 years as a UNIX sysadmin. PM me if you need help.

To: Scumbria who wrote (123687)	12/25/2000 12:12:10 PM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 186894

Dear Scumbria: Setup Samba on your Linux box. It will appear to the Windows PC as a NT server. Then all the Linux filesystems and printers will be available to Windows PCs (assuming you set it up for that). If you set up TCP/IP on both boxes correctly, you can telnet from Windows to the Linux Box and all other similar programs work. If you get a X windows server on the Windows PC, that will work too. Of course if Apache is running on Linux, all web based services can be available as well. Linux is also effective as a multiplayer server for many games like Q3, UT, and D3. I use the Linux box (with the DDS2/autoloader) as the backup server for all filesystems whether they are Windows or Linux based. It works far better than Microsoft Backup. Pete