Re: new user

[Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk>]

Dion wrote:

> I love sarge ,
>  
> having trouble connecting BBand to my linux box , wish my sarge box 
> would run wifi to my windows laptop .
>  
> advice?

For broadband, the best solution is to use an ethernet ADSL modem rather 
than a USB one. It sound as though you would want a combined wifi 
modem/router.

Samba provides a mixed Linux/Windows network, including printing from 
your Windoze laptop to your Linux box's printer. You need to setup IP 
connectivity first with your wifi router - then set up Samba. I recently 
posted some notes I made when I set up Samba at 
http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Installing_Samba_Linux/Windows_networking

You can also set up and IMAP server on your Debian box so that you can 
manage you emails from either the main box or a Linux laptop (provided 
that your main box is switched on) - see 
http://talk.trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim_maildir_imap.shtml. Not 
sure if this would work as well on a Windows laptop though.

Hth,
Chris.