Hi Ron, Thanks for your advice.
>Samba is an emulator for Window's SMB (Server Message >Block) protocol used by Windows for file and print >sharing. Since you say you have 3 more boxes with >Win98, then you will need to set up Samba if you want >file or printer sharing. However, you do not need it >for sharing an internet connection (Squid or even NAT >with IP masquerading is all you need for that). I have 3 Win boxes and 1 Linux box. However those 3 Win boxes can be easily converted to Linux box because I have mobile racks and spare hard disks. My question is "can I use my Linux box as server serving 3 Win boxes (Win98, Win ME and Win XP) or I have to converting all of them to Linux boxes" ? Which software recommended would be easily configured and maintained to be used in the server ? >As for what Dave meant by cached without being >connected - basically if a web page is in cache, Squid >will serve it up even if it is not connected. But I >think he was refering to WWWoffle (I don't know it). It sounds similarly to certain software in Win environment which can download the whole website allowing you browsing it off line. B.R. Stephen Liu
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