RE: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN
Oliver,
According to the setup files, my router is actually acting as a "gateway".
I'm not quite sure of the distinction between a router and a gateway.
Yes, I can ping the Debian machine with the Windows98 machine. I'll look
into Samba. I wasn't sure if it could be used in a network configuration.
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Elphick [mailto:olly@lfix.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 2:55 AM
To: Steve Dondley
Cc: Debian-Users
Subject: Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN
"Steve Dondley" wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Please tell Outlook not to add HTML to your mails; plain tedt only
is what we want.
>My setup:
>I've got a Linksys router connecting my two computers to my cable modem.
My
> first computer has just
>Windows 98 on it, the second computer is a dual-boot with Windows 98 and
Deb
>ian's latest stable
>release.
>
>My skills:
>Total Linux and networking newbie. Took a long time to figure out how to
ge
>t the above setup
>working.
>
>My question:
>What is the easiest way to share files between the two computers? Is it
pos
>sible over the LAN
>created with the router? What software do I need to accomplish this?
I'm not clear what kind of connection there is between computers and
router: does each computer have a different IP address? Can you detect
the Windows computer with ping?
If the two can't talk to each other through the router, you need to
put network cards in both and connect them directly.
Once the two can talk to each other, you need to install Samba on the
Debian machine. Samba will pretend to be a Windows machine so that
it can act as a server to all Windows machines on a network; it will
also let programs on the DDebian machine access fileshares on the
Windows machine.
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