Thank you for your comments, Ray.
For now, I'd like to (be able to)
1. run a file server
2. run X11
Later on
3. run a print server (apparently this is different from file server)
4. run a fax server
5. run IP masquerading, may be.
Let me tackle problem no. 1 first. The win95 client still cannot see the
Linux box in Network Neighbourhood. However, as mentioned earlier, all four
machines (3 win95, 1 slackware) can happily ping one another and telnet one
another. I suspect the answer lies somewhere in smb.conf file but can't
pinpoint it yet.
And when the file server is operational, where are the files installed? In
the DOS partition (since they are DOS-type files) or in the Linux partition?
And how does the client (to use a Windoze term) map and logon to the server
HDD?
If I'm not providing enough information for you to help, could you point to
the general direction where I could find answers?
>
>>What would be the next step to get this client-server network functional?
>
>Not to quibble or anything, but it really depends on what you wan the LAN to
>*do* -- at some level, it sounds like the network is "functional" now. I
>(and others) can help with more focused questions, as I have below, but
>something this general is hard to respond to. Things you *might* want to do
>include: run samba, run apache, configure and run X11, configure and run
>Netscape, run IP masquerading, run NFS, run a print server, runa a proxy
>server, run a backup system, do some security checking ... I've omitted a
>lot of more specialized additions that are possible.
>
Will give everything else a try? Thanks again.
shaggy
