Linux/Win98 Networking

[Travis Shofner]

Well I've looked through the LNO BBS and I've looked at just about every peice of documentation I could find on the net and I still don't have a clue on what to do with this.

Basically I've got a home network running off an 8 port hub attached to a dsl router. One computer is running win98 and my computer is running SuSE 7.1. I think that everything is working fine..I can surf and all that. I can ping his ip (10.0.0.3) and my own (.2) but I don't know how to set it up so we can have file sharing between the 2 computers.

Is it possible? I'd like to figure it out as soon as possible, and if it is possible, what do you use to view/copy files from his windows machine to my linux box. I'm assuming that if we can get the sharing setup, my computer will showup in his Network Neighborhood.

[FoBoT]

samba (http://us1.samba.org/samba/samba.html)
and
samba NHF (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/samba/samba1.html)

just to be fair, it isn't easy, do a forum search on samba and see how many people have trouble setting it up, not that i am trying to discourage you , just be aware it might take some elbow grease and determination on your part :)

good luck! :)

[bdg1983]

And a free online book on Samba here (http://infobase.informit.com/linux/) at Informit. I just posted this in a post just up from yours.

[Travis Shofner]

Thanks much, I'm looking forward to starting this actually.

Unforutnately I've got to work on some hardware problems I'm having (not related to linux, damn thing just shuts off for no reason, even though power is still present..it's like the hard disk goes dead..only happens the first time i start it up, never afterwards..but this isn't related so ill stop now) before I can do anything with samba. My list of things to do is getting really really long...

Thanks though, I'll probably ask some questions but I doubt I'll be bugging you about Samba. I'm sure there are enough answered questions to keep me busy this weekend.

[Leo III]

Did you configure your smb.conf already. Set your common workgroup and the username should also belong to linux.


Originally posted by Travis Shofner:
Thanks much, I'm looking forward to starting this actually.

Unforutnately I've got to work on some hardware problems I'm having (not related to linux, damn thing just shuts off for no reason, even though power is still present..it's like the hard disk goes dead..only happens the first time i start it up, never afterwards..but this isn't related so ill stop now) before I can do anything with samba. My list of things to do is getting really really long...

Thanks though, I'll probably ask some questions but I doubt I'll be bugging you about Samba. I'm sure there are enough answered questions to keep me busy this weekend.