Sam Carleton wrote:
Nevada wrote:
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3. What type of cableing between the two computers is easiest or best.
There is both BNC (cable like that of cable TV) or RJ45, it looks like telephone wire but with four pair rather then two pair wire. I recommend going with RJ45, but as someone else said, it requires a HUB, BUT you can use crossover cable rather then spending the money on a HUB. I recommend RJ45 because the one crossover cable will be cheaper then the terminators and the cable for BNC, and more importantly it is very easy to mess up the physical connection on BNC.
I agree and retract my earlier statement that BNC might be cheaper. I had forgotten that you can use a crossover RJ45 cable. This might be the simplest way to set up a two-system network. Not only do you not need to buy a hub, you don't need to find a place to put it and a place to plug it in to wall power.
4. If the phone line is connected to the Linux computer, how do you connect the Windos computer to the telephone line through the Linux machine. 56K modems are installed in both computers.
There is a lot to this one, like someone else said, only use the modem in the Linux box and setup IP Masquerading to allow the Windows box to get to the net. I have aDSL so I don't know how to configure Linux to dial up an ISP, but I do know that you will need to look into configuring ppp. The next question is, do you want the Linux box to dial the net every time either box tries to access the net? If you do, I believe you will want to look into setting up diald, but I might be wrong on this account.
The link I gave in my earlier message was for a script SuSE has on its web site that configures wvdial and pppd for demand dialing. I now use this instead of diald. It works flawlessly once set up but it is hard to set up since the script has a few bugs.
What order to do things in? I would first get the NIC installed and get the two boxes talking to one another. Then I would get the Linux box configured to dial up you ISP, if you haven't already. Then setup IP Masqurading. There are other things like Samba that you might want to consider running, also. But before you do, you might want to look into security...
It is very easy to end up broadcasting network services like Samba to the Internet if you don't look into security. I have implimented a firewall here just to be safe:)
SuSE also has a nice firewall package (replacing their older one) called firewals (that odd spelling is correct; apparently used so as not to conflict with the name of their older package). It is in the "sec" group, not the "n" group. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen http://paulsen.home.texas.net -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/