At 01:34 PM 2/11/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Well, I setup my first Linux box at home the other night. Yay!
Great for you !!
>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.
There is a bit more to it. Are you going to have them sharing a
connection to the internet via the network (ie. one of the 2 PC's
will dial your provider) ?
You need to pick one to be the "gateway". (usually that would be
192.168.0.1). To the best of my knowledge, you will ALLWAYS need
a gateway. This is totally separate from surfing the internet
(but I may be wrong).
To surf the net with both computers ( I would advise putting the
modem into the linux box and using it as the gateway/router) you
will net to install a Proxy Server on the gate machine (ie. the
Linux box). This proxy server will handle splitting the requests
for data on the net from the 2 boxes while going out to the net,
both share a single IP number (what ever you get from dialing up).
Enjoy the Linux box, you will find that it is MUCH more stable
than Winblows ever is. ( If you install WINE you can start to
run your Windows APPs on linux too).
Matt Soffen
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Boss - "My boss says we need some eunuch programmers."
Dilbert - "I think he means UNIX and I already know UNIX."
Boss - "Well, if the company nurse comes by, tell her I said
never mind."
- Dilbert -
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