Re: Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?
> Thanks Aaron,
> Crazy as this may sound, I'm trying to simulate a local connection to my
> hosted domain so I can see how different perl scripts will react _before_ I
> add them to my hosted domain. I know i could simply ftp them to my hosted
> domain and then test them but that is a pain because it takes soooooo long
> to ftp files, access them with a browser to see if there are errors, edit
> the scripts, and re-ftp them all over again.
>
> Of course instead of connecting my two os's I could run netscape on my
> linux system as http://localhost and see how the scripts handle with
> netscape, but there are other browsers, etc that function differently. I
> want to to see how the other browsers respond to the scripts. Some scripts
> work just fine on one browser but return blank pages on another. Since not
> all perl instructions work in a win95 environment I can't test them on my
> win95 pc. Instead I have to run them on linux to get them to work locally,
> then ftp them to my domain to see how they respond to different browsers by
> accessing them with my win95 pc.
>
> At 56k connections FTP'ing files to test them online is a very slow
> process. I wish to avoid these hassles of ftp'ing the files to my hosted
> domain to find out if the scripts work properly with a variety of browsers
> when I can simply <g> connect my win95 pc to my linux pc and go for broke
> locally.
What I do is telnet to my hosted domain, and edit the scripts there. You can
use whatever editor you like. It definetely saves the time spent ftp'ing,
setting perms, etc. Just don't download anything else at the same time.
As for a variety of browsers, I use Netscape 4 on my linux box, and then with
VNC Internet explorer 3 and Netscape 3 on a 486, and NS 4 and IE 4 on another
pentium 100. This works allright: a variety of browsers, versions, and
platforms.
> I've considered purchasing that $299 software that allows me to virtually
> run multiple os's on the same linux platform and at the same time but I
> haven't found a recommendation from an actual user.
I have tried the beta of Vmware, but at the time I had only 64MB of ram and it
was rather sluggish. I am sure it would much more peppy if I tried it again
because I have 128 MB now. Alas, the beta is over :(
My 3 of the computers on my home network run on coax. Recently I got a small
(9 port) hub with a coax crossover in order to get another box that didn't have
a combo card to work. The network runs on a combination of Windows, Debian,
and Redhat.
Later,
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Wim Kerkhoff
wim@netmaster.ca
www.canadianhomes.net/wim
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