Re: Networking

[Patrick Dunford]

Nick Rout wrote:

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.
 

"Could not resolve mount point /mnt/win"