Hi, John: Raspberry Pies are a great project to work on over lockdowns! I've got two RaspPis, a Linux server, a Linux laptop (my main machine), 4 windows machines, a wired laser printer, a wired inkjet printer and two Android phones sharing the wifi and wired network. One RaspPi serves as the local DNS, VPN node and file server (with an external USB 1 Tb drive) and PiHole DNS (blocking ads, spam and malware). The second RaspPi is breadboarded-up for programming experiments: mostly blinking LEDs so far.
Linux machines can share files with a Windows network by running the Samba server (https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/samba-file-server and https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/samba.md) and can consume files that are shared on the Windows network or printers that are accessible through a network interface (highly recommended!) or a Windows share. The best way to start working with a RaspPi is with a keyboard, mouse and screen attached, but once you start to get a hang of "The Linux Way," it can be run and administered remotely via ssh (PuTTY or the equivalent on Windows) and/or VNC to access the desktop interface. And/or you cy.an set up a web server on the RaspPi and interact with it that way. So, there's many ways to get connected. Let me know what you are considering and I'll try to point you towards resources. On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 5:16 AM John Weller <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a small home peer-to-peer network of 3 PCs running Win 10 over WiFi > which works most of the time but seems to prefer it when the wind is from > the East and there is an ‘R’ in the month 😊. At the start of lockdown I > bought a Raspberry Pi which inspired me to install Ubuntu on a redundant > laptop to learn Linux. Is there a simple way to include these in the > network? > > > > Thanks > > > > John > > > > John Weller > > 01380 723235 > > 07976 393631 > > > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/cacw6n4t4no8njsrtfh8uoqbtpoiodce-y8avw_jvyjqxnak...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
