----Original Message----- From: bda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 9:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mixed platform network
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:05:29PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > Are there packages available to support a LAN between a Windows XP > Professional gateway to the Internet and a debian woody system? Perhaps you should tell us exactly what it is you want to do. > I understand that Samba has some of these characteristics but I have not > found anything to suggest capabilities beyond printer and file sharing Samba also does authentication, but that's essentially correct. -- Right now, when I run totally under a Windows XP Professional environment, I have a Dell notebook which is the internet gateway, and connected by a crossover cable, I have a Dell desktop sharing that connection. Thus they can both access the internet at the same time, and I also have file transfer ability and printer sharing. This allows me to view much more than I would comfortably be doing on one system, permits me to do backup stuff on one while I watch the market, read email, scanning, and web stuff, or just maintain a redundant capability I would like to sustain that kind of capability even if I take down the Windows platform on the desktop (linux is not currently installed on the notebook, but I am vaguely musing about the idea of a second drive for the notebook and installing debian linux 3.0 on that as well), and come up on the desktop in linux/gdm, etc I am watching the stock market and have accounts open on proprietary Windows browsers from Fidelity and others and download market data again using proprietary Windows-based browsers, and sometimes run graphical applications such as Photoshop, Quark and others, so I don't particularly see myself entirely cutting the umbilical with Windows... in any event, even if I wished to do so, it would have to be stretched out over time Having finally gotten a stable debian distribution (woody) which supports my nvidia graphics card, I am now building up my linux resources and bringing myself up to speed. It would be nice if I could run Mozilla and other such under linux on the desktop while I maintain my internet connection using the notebook gateway I suppose a simple workaround would be to use two separate phone lines, and indeed I just bought a new modem for the desktop where linux is installed (previously I had a modem I scavenged from my old Gateway, but with the slots on the motherboard otherwise filled, the reversed bracket that Gateway used can no longer be accommodated). Such an arrangement of course wouldn't support dynamic file/printer sharing. My limited reading of Samba is that IT wants to be the server, so that would pose a different problem for me unless I did indeed install linux on the notebook -- David -- David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]