Physical Network Set-up Questions

[gkedrovs]

As you can tell from my posts and my sig, I'm still fairly new to the Linux world. When it comes to networking, it's worse.

I have been slowly building a stock pile of pc pieces and parts. I have just about all I need to build a dedicated server. It will server a dual purpose:
1. First and foremost: learning.
2. Second and more practical: file sharing, print sharing and internet IP routing / firewall / gateway, et al.

But, I need a little help before I start putting pieces and parts into the case. And, I imagine that this won't be the first post of this nature. So, thanks in advance for helping me get my head screwed on straight.

I'd like to install my Zip250 internal drive and a cd burner in the dedicated Linux server, and be able to access those drives and their respective capabilities via my nodes/workstations. One node is a Linux workstation, and others are Windows (both 98SE and 2000Pro). Can I do that - in Linux and via Samba? Or, does all that need to be kept on individual workstations?

I ask because I'll have to pull the Zip250 from a Win98 machine and the burning from a RH8 Linux box. I'd hate to go through all the hoohah of doing that to find out later that I was schtoopid and couldn't access these things in a dedicated server.

Thanks, folks!

-Greg

[andysimmons]

Yes, this is possible with Samba, but you'll probably also want SSH and VNC to do everything you mentioned (both are easily set up...sshd is even started on boot by default in some distros).

[michaelk]

You can also use webcdwriter for CD writing from the windows machines.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/webcdwriter/?topic_id=845%2C150%2C87

[gkedrovs]

Originally posted by michaelk
You can also use webcdwriter...

I just read the reviews out on Freshmeat. Everyone seems really happy with the program, and it's just what I was gunning for. Thanks!

-Greg

[gkedrovs]

And that brings up another question (which might be better suited in another post, maybe even in another forum area): how to I remove the modules that are currently loaded for my burner that I want to move from my Linux box to my Linux server?

-gk

[DMR]

Look in your /etc/modules.conf file; that's where external modules usually get loaded. Find the lines that refer to the drivers you don't need and either delete them or comment them out (by putting a # at the beginning of the lines).