begin Kevin Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > I'm completely new to the realm of LINUX and to your discussion group. > I'm a UC Davis grad student trying to put a bioinformatics workstation > to work at home. Any idea, how I can get some help with > installation-related questions? > > The acute issue is how to connect a Windows 98 laptop to the LINUX box.
that's certainly a cute issue! :-) > Today, I installed Redhat 7.1 and SAMBA. Consequently, the LINUX machine > can talk to itself via SAMBA what do you mean by "talk to itself"? it doesn't need samba to talk to itself. > but the Windows laptop doesn't see it > through the network (network == a patch-cable connecting the two NICs). > Any help is appreciated. kevin, is this a crossover cable? my understanding is that if you connect two NICs together, one (some? all?) of the lines need to cross over to a different position. pete -- The mathematics [of physics] has become ever more abstract, rather than more complicated. The mind of God appears to be abstract but not complicated. He also appears to like group theory. -- Tony Zee's `Fearful Symmetry' PGP Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
