I have a Win98 box and a Mandrake 8 connected to my DSL router. I want to setup the Mandrake box to be a fileserver for my Win98 box. Where should I start?

(From what I can tell, my Win98 box doesn't even see a network -- clicking on Network Neighborhood just gets me an error message...)

Thanks!

Ultra-

well, teh windows side of things is not gonna really be supported here, but you need to read the networking howto on linuxdoc.org you'll also want to understand samba once you've a basic network established.

I've just gone through the same thing, for Windows to start networking you'll need to login (automate this as its a royal pain, can be achieved with something like Tweakui from M$). Set up the same username and password that u use to login to windows to login to the linux box. Set up Samba on the linux box, there's lots of good doco at www.samba.org or in the MAN pages, either way in Madrake 8 just starting up Samba's web interface gives lots of clues how to do it.

Just make sure you're networked in Windows first, ie Windows login, TCP/IP etc and login!!! otherwise you'll be blaming the linux box when Windoze is the culprit

vive la penguin

if you use 'share level' sharing in windoze, instead of 'user level' (check the control panel for this), then you don't need any user/pass login for either computer. simply share resources on win98 and the linux box can smbmount them. setup samba server on the linux box. give them ip's that are in the same sub net , or use DHCP server on the linux box, run some cable, and you're done! i have a similar setup with cable internet on my redhat box serving/routing/firewalling my other computers.

how did you get your dsl to work with linux mandrake 8.1?
can you please send the step by step on how you get it to work.

I don't know how to make verizon dsl to work on linux mandrake 8.1

help me out if you can please.

thank you.

Hello:

This may help go to this website:

Canada Computes

Scroll to the How To section and select Linux for Newbies.

Regards,

John Kerr
Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Hello:

Sorry, my last post was ment to have a heading as above.

The URL is good for any newbie to look at as it contains a series
of good articles.

Go to this website:

Canada Computes

Scroll down to the How To section and then click on
Linux for Newbies.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

John Kerr

Hi, to ALL

I'm very new to LINUX, but worked on Windows for a'bout 5 years.

Now , I want to switch over to Linux. My problem is, I have a home network set up with 3 comp.. , where one is now running Linux(*Mandrake 8.0) in duel boot with Windows98 and the other 2 is running win...98.

If I boot the machine in Win.. then I can see it on the lan, but if I boot it up in Linux, I dont see it on the lan.

I used the "harddrake" option to configure my lancard, seems to work fine.

If there is any1 who can help me, please ! = I will be grateful !!!

ME

What do you mean by "see" it on the lan? are you pinging it, or just browsing with Network Neighborhood, or do you mean when logged into the Linux box you have no lan access?

When I logon to Win..98 and ping the network , I can see all 3 machines. But when I logon to Linux, then I dont seems to see the network. This is from both sides(Pinging from wind..98 and from Win98)

I can send files arounf in win..98 but also want to do it when log on with Linux machine.


ME

Seek Help

My network configuration is as follows:

In Windows98 : Ip range from 192.186.0.1 to 3 (Where 192.168.0.3 also running Linux) workgroup = romeo

On Linux machine (*this computer3=windows ip 192.168.0.3)

hostname = computer3.romeo
domainname = romeo

Tiffy01,

Sounds like you are having the usual Dns resolution problem. If you are familiar with the "ping" command try pinging to and from your Linux box. You will probably get replies. If so the network is functioning properly and you are having the name resolution problem. Do a search on this forum for "dns", "ping", or "resolution" and you should find many threads posted with solutions to problems similar to yours.

Steve


Sorry about the ping advice. I was writing this post while you posted your last post. (Does that even make sense?)

I believe you are wanting to resolve 2 problems here... one is having all machines be able to resolve the names of each other, and second being able to move files among all 3 machines.

There's a program called Samba which should solve the file sharing problem as well as having the windows machine find the linux machine on the network.

In order to have the linux machine see the windows machines, you need to edit the /etc/hosts file and put the hostnames & IP addresses of the windows machines in there.

Thanks to everyone so far for helping me.............


I will try all new solutions, will let you know at end of it....



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