On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 16:01, joe wrote: > I was thinking of either a plain old hub (don't have the money for a > router), or another NIC. Next most important consideration is ease of > use, for a newb like me. Will be using either mdk 7 or 8.2 on one box > (old pentium) and 9.0/XP on the other. TIA for any suggestions, words of > wisdom. Joe. >
1 x Crossover cable to go from the linux box's NIC to the XP box's NIC; use SAMBA to configure a workgroup. Setup a mail server, ftp server, web server on the linux box as well. Connect printers to the linux box. Share printers on linux box with XP via Samba and Windows smb protocols. It's easier than you think - and if you're going to dive into linux, might as well go for it. BTW, use the linux box as your "internet connection sharing" box with the XP box so that you have the best available firewalling and routing. You can also setup fetchmail to gather all your outside email to live on your linux box, and setup the client on the XP box to grab mail from the linux box. Less hassle. -- Sun Dec 15 16:45:00 EST 2002 4:45pm up 4 days, 9:07, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn It should be fixed, but it won't be easy and it won't be fast. If you want to help - wonderful. But keep in mind that it will take months of wading through the ugliest code we have in the tree. If you've got a weak stomach - stay out. I've been there and it's not a nice place. - Al Viro on fixing drivers
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