Hello to all,

A few weeks back I posted a thread about networking a Linux box to a Windoze box. Well here it is, Windows ICS (Internet connection sharing) wouldn't work so I used Proxy from AnalogX set everything up and I now have a Windows 98SE box to dailup the Internet and share its connection with my Linux box (I'm online with the Linux box right now for the first time). Thanks to all of you, it wasn't easy (like Windows) but it wasn't immpossible either. My next goal is to share my printer and files on my Win 98 box with my Linux box. Am I correct to assume that I will SAMBA to do this? As Windows doesn't "see" my Linux box right now.


Thanks to everyone this is a GREAT Forum

Bubba169

I think that you went the wrong way connecting to the internet through your Win box then logging onto your Linux box through that,...

I would think that the best way to go is to use your Linux box as a firewall and connect to the internet with that, and connect your Win machine to the Linux machine through Samba,... the same way for printer sharing.

A win machine is much more vulnerable than a Linux machine while connected to the internet. Linux machines are more secure than most win machines, particularly the Win9x series.

I agree with JaseP completely.

You will obviously need SAMBA documentation. You can find lots of goodies at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/. I suggest the Samba-HOWTO-Collection, available in both HTML and PDF formats.

I agree with you. I hope to one day use a Linux gateway but my dilemna was this. I picked up this box for $15.00 (complete monitor and all) at an auction it has is a pent.166Mhz had a 402Mb HD and 16Mb ram and a 3Com 3c905tx NIC (No modem). So I picked up a used 4.3 gig hard drive and 64Mb of ram to bring the total up to around $100.00 or so (SIMM ram isn't cheap). The Win 98SE box was already online with a software modem. So after waying out the cost of each route I decided that it was cheaper to leave the Win box alone just hook the 2 up with a crossover cable as I didnt want to spend alot of money on an old 166Mhz box. So economics played a big part in this task.

The second thing is I'm running a firewall on my Win 98 box won't this protect both computers or will it only protect the Win 98 box?

bubba169

Another major factor was that I had only been using Linux for about 2 1/2 months now and this was my first attempt at networking. I know Windows and I knew that I had any dailup trouble that I could resolve it in Windows but I wasn't sure about linux. I am not trying to change the world over to Linux I had an old computer and I wanted to learn something different a new OS perhaps. I wasn't originally going to put the Linux box online but this project just keeps growing, before I finish one thing I'll find something else that I want to do. I simply setup this little network up the way I felt most comfortable. As I grow I'm sure that I will change some things but for now this works and I haven't outgrown it yet.

Thanks

Bubba169

Here's another tip;

Ditch that software modem. On the Win system it eats CPU cycles. On the Linux system it most likely will not work. Get an external serial modem (like a cheap generic V.90, I got mine for $45.00). The external serial will work on every system you have (assuming they all have RS-232 ports), and it will do the stuff in hardware that a modem is supposed to do.

Plus you can move it on a whim...

The Linux box with even that little P166 will still work ok as a server for the Win machine. Just have it boot with Samba, and don't have it boot by default into the X-windows system. Running command line programs it will probably outshine a Win box acting as a server running at 4x the speed.