On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Geoff afsdl wrote:
> Well, I bought a 50ft cat5 cable to stave off abject boredom after my cable
> modem went on the fritz. I set up my 486 with apache, and I now have it
> working. I have a few questions regarding this and other utilities:
>
> -how do I let users have thier own accounts?
>
"adduser <username>" then "passwd <username>" to create
their login password. This automatically creates
/home/<username>
>
> Next, is there a better telnet client for windows? Whenever I try to edit a
> file in vim through telnet, all i get is A and B's when i press the arrow
> keys after entering insert mode. Getting this working would be useful.
>
Sure...go to winfiles.com and find one that sounds
interesting. :-) You might try setting your terminal
emulation in Windows Telnet to something like VT220 or
one of the other "VT" terminal emulations, though, and see
if that doesn't help. :-)
>
> Finally, is there a way for linux to mount a win98 disk?
>(eg, i put on unrestricted sharing
>on the disk) I'm getting really tired of moving floppy >
>disks (i dont have ftp services up) and i would also like
>it if linux could have a few extra gigs of storage
>courtesy the other machine. (i dont think > this is SMB, i
>could be mistaken) >
>
As long as it's on the same PHYSICAL machine, you don't
have to do Samba. However, AFAIK, if you're trying to
share drives over a LAN with a Windows machine, the only way
to do it is SAMBA/SMB.
--
John Aldrich
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