firewire network

level · 02-21-2004, 07:35 AM

I'm trying to connect a WinXP box and a Linux box running knoppix 3.3 with firewire.

I've modprobe ohci1394 and modprobe raw1394, and gscanbus shows the Windows box.

I tried:
mkdir /mnt/myshare
mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //WindowsBox/some_share /mnt/myshare ; but I get error 1214, SMB connection failed.

Any help would be appreciated.

beyer42 · 02-21-2004, 05:36 PM

checkout
http://howto.ipng.be/FireWireClustering/x57.html

and FAQ at http://www.linux1394.org/

I would think that you would need to use eth1394 driver

for Windows firewire networking checkout
http://www.homenethelp.com/network/firewire.asp

According to this article Windows just supports IP networking thru firewire and not IPX or NetBUI

Hope this is helpful, good luck.

level · 02-21-2004, 09:35 PM

Thanks, beyer42, for that information. It was exactly what I needed.

Didn't anticipate a firewire network in Linux to be as easy as it is with Windows XP.

Thanks again, for your time and effort.