Re: A minimalist network
On Wednesday 17 August 2016 21:48:20 Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 8/17/2016 10:05 AM, der.hans wrote:
> > Am 16. Aug, 2016 schwätzte Richard Owlett so:
> >
> > moin moin Richard,
> >
> > look at zeroconf. Both machines can independently setup
> > networking to talk
> > to each other.
>
> The web hits I got for zeroconf indicated it's part of a support
> package for KDE, I'm using Mate. Don't know if that's a problem.
> http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi is still giving a 404
> error so I can't check there. Didn't find any link at kde.org
> that looked promising.
Try one of these:
http://mate-desktop.com/community/
They are a helpful enthusiastic lot.
Lisi
>
> > I believe zeroconf came up somehow recently on a new box until I
> > fixed the
> > network cable, so it's likely an option during install.
> >
> > ciao,
> >
> > der.hans
> >
> >> I wish to connect two laptops via Ethernet.
> >>
> >> The Debian machine is having various configurations of Jessie
> >> installed. Consider it a laboratory experiment. It can have
> >> multiple installs in a day. It intentionally has *NO* internet
> >> connectivity. It has a small partition set aside for
> >> preseed.cfg and miscellaneous scripts.
> >>
> >> The second machine is running WinXP Pro SP3 and serves as
> >> source of preseed and script files.
> >>
> >> My internet searches turn up too much outdated information
> >> and/or fine detail. Most link assume a server with multiple
> >> clients. Better description would be a peer to peer setup. It
> >> may be convenient to have the Windows machine act as a terminal
> >> for the Debian machine.
> >>
> >> Suggested search terms or links.
> >> Thank you.
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