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Re: First network



A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I've set up my first network.  I have two boxes I can ping back and forth
> from successfully.  I have Slink running on both machines and can Telnet
> both ways.

Ok.

> I was wondering how do you copy files from one computer to the next?  
> Is there anyway through Telnet (tried but didn't work) or do I somehow
> mount the other drive through the network?

I use three ways quite a bit:

* FTP
* NFS
* SMB (aka Windows file sharing)

If you're just getting into networking FTP will be the easiest.

> Also and this is a little off topic but I can Telnet from the Windows
> 98 side to Slink but can't Telnet from Slink to Windows 98, is this
> possible?

You can telnet into Win98 only if Windows is running a telnet daemon.  
Take my advice and don't try it - Windows 9x sucks for that sort of thing
(being a server).

> I get the error, Telnet:  Unable to connect to remote host:  
> Connection refused. Thanks, kent

That means the Windows machine refused the connection, mostly because
there wan't anything that could respond.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch@creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein


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