Basic Network Setup

[mchassy]

Hi,

I have been looking for HowTo docs for networking. What I have found is a little too complicated: using a dedicated computer to share internet connections and all of that. I have my router already which shares the internet connection just fine.

Here’s my setup:

• One PC 100% Kubuntu Dapper (2 hard disks all on ext3)
• One PC with a dual boot Kubuntu and Windows XP (one hard drive with three partitions: NTFS, fat32, and ext3)
• One router
• Everything connected with cables

Here’s what I’d like to do: set up shared folders so that each computer can see/create/modify files on the other regardless of the OS which is running.

Bonus  : if someone knows of a HowTo for VMware so that I can run my windows setup while leaving Linux running that would be much more better.

Thanx for any info.

Mark

[CPrompt]

Re: Basic Network Setup

to get your Windows to see your linux you need to run Samba. Make sure it's installed.

Also, samba will pretty much take care of seeing shared folders on your Windows machine. So in answer..Samba is the way to go.

Read up on using samba. There's some good stuff in there. Here is a nice PDF on it
https://www.hentzenwerke.com/wp/file...inuteguide.pdf

What I did was set up Samba on the linux box and then map a network drive to the Samba share on my Windows box. Be sure to configure you host name the same as your Windows box. Makes it nice to go through "Network Neighborhood" to see the samba share.