On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Dotan Cohen<dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: >> AFAIK most of the present day network hardware have Auto-MDIX >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-MDIX >> My T42, three years old has this, so one really does not have to bother. >> > > This is very, very interesting, thanks! Do both sides have to support > this for it to work, or is one side enough?
One side is sufficient I guess. > >>> Can I configure an FTP server locally, that would allow for easy >>> connection via Windows Explorer, Konqueror, and Nautilus? I need the >>> ability to transfer files in both directions. Thanks in advance for >>> any ideas. >> >> I would suggest using Samba. FTP is always an option. >> > > Really? Do you suggest Samba because it works with the Windows > machines? Should I use it when connecting to other Debian or Fedora > machines? You can use it as well. There are lot of options while copying files between GNU/Linux installed machines, you can use FTP, scp etc.. I mostly use scp to copy between peer's. > > Also, as there is no router involved, how would the the "other" > machine connect to my machine? Will I need to install a DHCP server? > Can I assign a name to my laptop, so that the other machine could just > connect to that name? one can connectly directly with an ethernet cable. assign I.P's in the same subnet (example 192.168.1.2/24 192.168.1.3/24) and there's network between two computers. You don't need DHCP, thats basically required for managing networks when there are more clients. I don't know the kind of setup you need so unable to comment. Ideally you might think of getting a switch(maybe wireless but less speed) and connecting the different computers, again I don't now the requirements. Naming requires DNS support. If you intend to setup basic networking you might want to read: http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/HOWTO/networking-concepts-HOWTO.html Rusty's others documentations are interesting and fun as well. Debian has all the tools you might require for doing your networking tasks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org