Hi Harry,
When installing RedHat you needed to say "yes" to configuring
a program called Samba. This program, when running in the background of your
linux machine will make it appear as a Windows system with drives and
printers to share. It will also appear on your wife's Network Neighborhood.
Thus, she will not have to deal with any UNIX commands. (I currently
use a few Linux machines at my office to replace very expensive Windows
NT servers -- beleive me, if I had to teach all of my office people
how to use it, I wouldn't be using it!)
To make samba automagically start at boot time, login as
root and enter the following commands:
cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
ln -s ../init.d/smb S99smb
Next time you reboot, samba will automatically restart. For the
time being, if you just want to start samba by hand (so you don't
have to reboot -- one of the reasons linux is better than Windows =)
you can enter the following:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
You should see something like:
Starting SMB services: smbd nmbd
The smbd and nmbd pair of programs are what make up samba.
If your printers are attached to your machine and already configured
to use by the printttol program (or you edited /etc/printcap by hand)
your wife should be able to see your printers by going to Network
Neighborhood and browsing your machine.
Pretty nifty, huh? =) Folks use this program which came on your $50
RedHat CD (or downloaded from the net for free) to replace NT servers
that cost many thousands of dollars. Kinda helps understand the loyalty
factor... =)
Anyway, you may need to tweak your samba configuration files a little
bit to disable security. (Assuming your home network is not connected
to the Internet in any way) Look in the documentation directory I
mentioned earlier for additional help on that. (or do a
"man smb.conf" to get the full docs on how to setup your smb.conf
file -- the main configuration file for samba). The smb.conf file
can be found in the /etc directory.
Good luck. Enjoy your new RedHat install.
-Steve
ps. If you don't HAVE to keep the SCO install, think of the few
gigs you could use for other stuff in Linux? ;)
On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 07:18:39PM -0700, Harry Putnam wrote:
> After looking through the HOWTOS on networking. Particularly the
> `Ethernet HOWTO' I didn't see much about connecting a linux box to a
> win95/98 box. I hope that is because it is routinely done and not
> much trouble.
>
> I have some experience on win95 OS and more on Linux OS but no
> experience with a network hookup.
>
> I'm talking a homeboy setup where I connect my Linux box to my wifes
> win98 box. Mine is Pentium 200, hers is HP Pentium 330.
> Are there snafus involved? And how about just basic functioning..
> I have a printer hooked up in my setup. Parallel port Deskjet 690c.
> If she wants to access that printer from win98 OS, how does that work?
> Do both computers need to be running? Will she have to use Linux
> commands or will she be able to use the win98 print dialogs?
>
> My setup is a a tri-boot deal right now. RH linux on one 3.2GB disk and
> a small win 95 plus SCO unix (OpenServer) on another partitioned 3.2GB disk.
>
> Hers is an 8GB fat32 disk w/no partitions
>
> I'm running kernel 2.0.35. Am I right to assume several network
> drivers are built in to it already, that will connect the two machines?
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