Re: [newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread Steve Weltman
On Friday 25 January 2002 05:03 am, you wrote: Easy solution is to ditch the peer networking, and the crossover cable and spring for a cheap 4 port switch. If you really want to get fancy, get a DSL firewall appliance with a built in switch. That way both consoles can get net access and talk t

Re: [newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread Randy Kramer
poogle wrote: > >No I only want to be able to move files between machines for now, for > example if I download something bigger than 1.44mb, I don't want to have to > burn a CD just to get it onto the laptop, and I don't want to connect the > laptop to the internet to download it again. (Windows h

Re: [newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread poogle
On Friday 25 January 2002 14:04 pm, you wrote: > On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 07:03, poogle wrote: > > I have a network card in my PC and a pcmcia network card in my laptop, > > both are recognised/configured , I have crossover RJ45 cable and now I > > want them to talk to each other. (both running 8.1,

Re: [newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread Derek Jennings
There is a nice two pager on NFS in the documents section at www.mandrakeuser.org One thing to remember the tutorial does not make clear :- You must have exactly the same users in both computers, and they must have identical user id numbers. So for example user 'poolgle uid=501' on computer A

Re: [newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Sherman
On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 07:03, poogle wrote: > I have a network card in my PC and a pcmcia network card in my laptop, both > are recognised/configured , I have crossover RJ45 cable and now I want them > to talk to each other. (both running 8.1, Windows not involved here) > I have read the books an

[newbie] Basic Network

2002-01-25 Thread poogle
I have a network card in my PC and a pcmcia network card in my laptop, both are recognised/configured , I have crossover RJ45 cable and now I want them to talk to each other. (both running 8.1, Windows not involved here) I have read the books and rtfm but still don't understand what to do. Can a