On Wednesday 03 April 2002 11:53 pm, Wally wrote: > Is there a way to get my Mandrake 8.1 laptop to see my Windows desktop > using NetBEUI? Can't use TCP/IP at the moment because the desktop's ip is > assigned via the cable modem.
Ermm.. No... In any case NetBEUI would not help. It still uses the same IP address as TCP You need to look at how you are connected to your cable modem. If you have a cable modem connected directly to your desktop on a NIC, and your laptop is connected to your desktop on a different NIC, then that is two different lan segments, and the segment the laptop is on has nothing to do with the way your desktop gets its IP address. You could run static addressing between your laptop and desktop while still using DHCP to your cable modem. (I will ignore for the moment the temptation to say you should run the more stable and virus resistant OS on the boundary to the internet- Damn I said it!) If however you have a hub directly connected to your cable modem, with both your desktop and laptop directly attached to the hub with your desktop set for dhcp, while your laptop is set for static addressing then that is not a good idea since your laptop will not know what IP address the desktop is using unless it is also set to use DHCP, and since you are in the UK that means you are either an NTL customer (like me), or a Telewest one, and I know they do not allow more than one IP address on a cable modem so that is not a viable alternative. (Unless you pay the very expensive 'Business tariff') The third possibility is you have a router or firewall device between the cable modem and your local lan segment. In this case you should configure it as a DHCP server and let both computers obtain their IP addresses from it. (That's what I do) The cheapest solution is the first one. Put two NIC cards in one of the computers and let it work as a gateway. Windows 98SE and upwards is capable of this. But of course Linux does it better. (Damn I said it again!) There is also another issue to address before your laptop can see your desktop. That is the fact that Windows networking uses a proprietary SMB protocol on top of TCP/IP (or NETBEUI) OpenSource engineers have reverse engineered that protocol, and there is an application called 'Samba' which allows a Linux computer to appear to be a Windows NT computer to a Microsoft network. To set up Samba check out the docs section at www.mandrakeuser.org Strangely enough a Linux computer running samba outperforms a Windows2k machine as a Windows file server. (Damn I said it again) HTH derek
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