[Coco] Linux<->Windows Ethernet connection

[Mike Pepe]

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?  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.  :)
> 

Looks good... but if you're running a windows machine and you want 
access to Linux dev tools, you can also run cygwin on the windows system.