[Coco] Linux<->Windows Ethernet connection

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:50 AM 3/26/2006, you wrote:
>Roger Taylor wrote:
>>Does anybody know of a good way to network Red Hat Linux 9.0 with Windows 
>>XP SP2 over a cross-over Ethernet connection?
>>My Linux box is actually a dual-boot system with Windows XP.  I have a 
>>FAT32 drive setup just for swapping files between the two OSes.  If I can 
>>share this drive using some common network protocol that both OSes 
>>include then I suppose this would work.
>>All of this pertains to CoCo development and web site scripts for 
>>CoCo3.com.  I don;t use Linux for all of my work but mainly, for now, 
>>just use it for compiling HLA software and then I move those Linux 
>>binaries back over to Windows where I upload them to my remote 
>>Linux-based web servers for running.  Until HLA gains the feature to 
>>compile Linux binaries from Windows (it will eventually), I have to work 
>>this way if I am to write software/scripts for Linux systems.
>>I need to be able to stay working on both Linux and my XP laptop at the 
>>same time and access the Linux files from Windows at any time.
>>
>
>Roger,
>
>Not sure why you'd want to go with RH9, it's ancient, there's been 5 
>Fedora Core releases since then. I'd highly recommend ditching RH9 and 
>going with anything modern, as a lot has changed since the RH9 era. 
>(mostly for the better)
>
>In terms of networking two machines together, its relatively 
>straightforward. If you only ever plan on having two machines the 
>crossover cable is fine, but if you go with a small switch you can add 
>other systems to the mix as well.
>
>Essentially you'll have to give each system a static IP address, and run 
>Samba on the Linux box to share files between the two. It's not terribly 
>difficult once you've done it a hundred times!
>
>-Mike


If you have a hot second later I'll give you my # and maybe you can walk me 
through it.  I learned out how to enable Samba in RH9...

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start




It says it started SMB and NMB? with [OK] so I think it's running and I 
hope this stays running on each boot.  If not, how do I automate it?  I 
can't remember how I automated the mounting of my FAT32 drive in Linux but 
I did and it's mounted when I boot as well.

I don't know where to go in Linux to assign an IP address, and am lost from 
there if I do.  :)

-- 
Roger Taylor