Well, you could just use your "regular computer" as a file server while in both windows and linux. In windows, set up file sharing using user names and passwords and do the same thing in linux via sharing with samba.
Keep your documents on a FAT32 drive under windows. When using linux, mount your windows drive under your /home/user/windows directory so you can access it from there. Then set up samba to use your same login name and password to samba mount from you laptop linux and network neighborhood mount from your laptop windows. You don't have to use NFS. Samba will be able to share and get your data using SMB. Use either tar, arkiea or a cd-r(w) backup from linux or a windows software package to backup your personal data. A hub and ethernet cards are all you would need. You would be best served with any System Admin HOWTO or book, a book on "linux networking for dummies" (don't take offense, it's just a title) or something to that affect and/or a HOWTO or book on SAMBA. Chad Quoting Kathy Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a Windows 98/Mandrake regular computer and a Win 98/Mandrake > laptop. That's 4 separate filesystems on which to be confused about > where I have left my files. For that reason, I was thinking about > creating a little LAN (that would not need to be connected to the > Internet), and setting up a third machine as a file server. That way, > whatever OS/machine I'm on I could access the same files > (theoretically). > > Has anyone done this or does anyone have any tips on getting started? > Would I need any hardware besides a hub and Ethernet cards? Could I > use > Samba to see the served files from Windows? Do I have to use NFS on > the > server? Any recommended backup strategies? Could I find information > about this subject in any system administration book? > > Thanks, > Kathy > > -- > Unix fun: > > $ cat "food in can" > cat: cannot open food in can > > > >
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