On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:30:32 +1300 Patrick Dunford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I have a Linux machine that I want to connect to a Linux server and > have access to directories on that server. I'm only familiar with how to > set up Windows networking and Samba. So how do I set up a couple of > machines in a Linux network? The server has DHCP running from Samba and > will issue an IP address. Unless it's really easy to do, I should be > able to bypass samba or do I need some other kind of server software if > I'm not connecting to Samba shares? you can connect two linux machines via samba, but many regard it as a retrograde step, using a "foreign" network protocol to connect. think of two english speakers whose omly method of communication is through a swahili speaking third party, bith english speakers have to translate their thoughts into swahili, and back again. nfs is a more usual way between linux machines. Try taking a look at the howtos at http://www.tldp.org - specifically http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/index.html > > I have to find out what kind of network card this machine has (Intel > onboard I think) and run modconf to install a driver, what about the > rest of the ethernet setup? > follow your distros instructions, as you seem to have a dhcp server it should be easy once youy have found the right module. to find out what the card is use lspci or cat /proc/pci > Also is it possible for a Linux machine to connect to a share on a > Windows computer, what is used for this? This PC has only an 850 MB hard > drive, and at present a base Debian install with no tasksel or dselect > additional packages. mount -t smbfs //windowsmachine/share /mnt/win -o username=user,password=foobar //windowsmachine is what you want to connect to, share is the name of the share on that machine. /mnt/win is where you want it to appear in the filesystem on the linux machine. user and foobar are the username and password that have permission to access share. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
