On 1/16/2017 1:08 PM, King Beowulf wrote: > On 01/14/2017 06:53 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I suspect what I'm looking for is ONE 3 ft piece of terminated >> Cat6 cable ;) >> I have two laptops - one (a Lenovo T43) speaks only WinXP Pro, >> the other (a Lenovo T430) only Debian Jessie. >> Sometime back I attempted to have them communicate via ethernet - >> hence the availability of the Cat6 cable. As far as I got was >> both sides recognized that electrically the other existed. >> My LAN knowledge is ~= "null set". > --- > > I have to chime in here: Although the ressponses all have good info, > they are a bit terse and scattered.
"Scattered" doesn't particularly bother me. It natural for how I look up things - get initial set of links, follow chains of links leading to asking apparently unrelated questions which often are the most productive. As I said in my reply to Mr. Senior, I'll do a fuller install of Debian to a flash drive. That should give me a near optimal environment. I'll use the remainder of your post as a check list of tasks to be accomplished. Thank you. > > 1. Prerequisites > > CAT5 or 6 etehrnet cable with RJ45 plugs > PC networks cards (NIC) 10/100Mbps or 1Gbps > > NOTE: not all older NIC cards are autosensing, but all 1GBbps cards are. > If they are not autosensing you will need either a crossover cable, a > hub or a switch > > 2. Set up network > > Any IP address on the same subnet will work. As mentioned, you can omit > gateway etc. I will leave you to this list or google/man pages on how > to set up the static ip addresses. > > Linux: > 192.168.0.1 > 255.255.255.0 > > WinXP > 192.168.0.2 > 255.255.255.0 > > 3. File sharing protocols. > > I use NFS here since everything is Linux or MacOS. Windows needs extra > software for NFS. Thus you are stuck with SAMBA. Depending on your > version of Windows, you can either set up a Windows file share and mount > it in Linux, or set up linux as a SAMBA server to share files. > > 3a. Set up a shared directory in Windows. > Once you share a folder in Windows, then set appropriate permissions > (left as an exercise!), go to a terminal in Linus a do something like > (will need root or sudo): > > # mkdir /mnt/<somewhere> > (I will use /mnt/hd as it already exists in Slackware) > > # mount -t cifs //192.168.0.2/<shared_dir> /mnt/hd -o rw,username=<username> > > Obviously, <> items are replaced with your stuff. > > Now you can transfer files. > > 3b > Set up Linux as a SAMBA server. Pretty tedious but lots of good HOW-TOs > online. Use this is yo have multiple windows boxes that need to share > with one Linux box. > > Have Fun! > Ed > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug