G. Douglas Burton (95) wrote:
>
> I want to set up this machine to run Samba so that
> it can be used on my WIndows network as the file server.
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http://www.linuxorbit.com/howto/sambahowto.php3
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> Even though I told it to setup as 169.254.11.1, the only
> way I could see any results was to ping 127.0.0.1
127.0.0.1 = localhost
so the machine is actually pinging itself
> it doesn't even need to run X-Windows unless
> that is necessary to accomplish this goal.
X is unnecessary. A 486 with 16meg RAM can't
afford to waste resources on unnecessary processes.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
If I were you, I would get the network running
using Linux on all machines (all you need on
the "client" machines in a mini-Linux). Once
the network is working 100%, introduce Samba.
> Anyone who has messed with Linux much would
> have to agree that this is one of the worst
> documented OS's out there!
I disagree. There is a plethora of documentation
available. HOWTOs, man pages, info, source code,
books, magazines, numerous online articles, etc.
Linux is the fourth OS I have taken up and, without
a doubt, it provides the most documentation.
It is true that much of Linux documentation is
difficult for newbies to understand, but that's
the way it goes. Your ZX-81 had a learning curve
and I'm sure you spent many months coming to
grips with it. Ditto Linux.
Cheers,
Steven
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