I'm in the same process. I've been running linux at home on an old box for
a month or so. yesterday I put it on a box at work and set it up for
serving, apache, telnet, smail and proftp. I was kinda happy to browse in
an see the "hey it works" page. Now all I gotta do is learn to keep it all
safe.
Ronnie
At 01:34 PM 2/11/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Well, I setup my first Linux box at home the other night. Yay!
>
>For anyone fearing the setup process, lemme give some reassurance....
>
>I carefully picked my hardware, based on the hardware compatibility list at
>http://www.redhat.com (click support) and the install, using Redhat 5.2, was
>a piece of cake. The install routine detected all of my hardware, including
>the network card (no SCSI card on the machine, though) and in around 25
>minutes I was up and running with Apache, a few GUI's to choose from and
>much more: the package I bought from Redhat included the entire CPAN archive
>and a few other disks full of goodies.
>
>The install manual is pretty easy to understand and reading chunks of it
>prior to doing the install is something I'd recommend for someone new to
>setting up Linux.
>
>Now, my next task is to get the network between the Linux box and the NT to
>work. I've never set this up before, so I've been rummaging through
>newsgroup archives digging up info. NT comes with no manual, only some
>crappy Word doc and an inneffectual help module (what do you expect for $250
>for the boxed version of NT Workstation: instructions?)...
>
>so far, what I've gleaned is that I should be setting up a class C network
>between the machines (coaxial ethernet cable), using IP addresses between
>192.168.0.0 and 192.168.255.0 with netmask 255.255.255.0. I'm confused about
>gateways and WINS now. Any light someone can shed would be appreciated. Oh,
>I also figure I'll need to use Samba so the Linux box will show up on the
>network in NT, but gotta research that some more.
>
>Jack
>
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