[Coco] Linux<->Windows Ethernet connection

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 26 March 2006 13:42, Roger Taylor wrote:
>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?

chkconfig samba on

However, since thats an rh9 box, you need to setup yum (Yellowdog 
Updater, Modified) to access the legacy repositories and let it bring 
the samba installs up to date, a lot, and I mean a lot, has been 
changed and improved over the stock rh9.0 versions.  For that join the 
fedora-legacy mailing list and someone there can point you at the 
correct stuff.  Yum is nice, dragging in the dependencies too when you 
want it to install something.  The kludgey old up2date utility has been 
deprecated and no further support for it exists that I know of.

> 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.

You probably put it into /etc/fstab?

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

What sort of net service do you have, Roger?  Dailup, dsl, cable, ???

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