Hi Gordon!

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Gordon Smith wrote:

Hi.

Can anybody suggest which would be the best e-mail utility to use in Suse, in a text-only system.

I'm useing pine, but there is also elm, mutt etc. Take a look into serie N on the SusE-cdroms, there are several mailclients.

I can probably second-guess the answer to this next

question, but what about an Internet web browser?

There are several webbrowsers too. For example lynx, links or w3m are working fine.

Finally, is their an FTP

server with Suse that is installed in the default system, or one which I can find in the packages?

There are also several ftp-servers and clients. See also serie n on the cdroms.

Next, is there a way I can mount a FAT32 Windows

partition, to make it visible to Linux?

Yes, the following command should work:

mount /dev/[fat32-partition] [mountpoint] -t vfat

Take a look into /etc/fstab, there are all partitions and there mountpoints listed that you can mount (SusE detects this during installation). For more infos see

man fstab

and finally, I need to map the

drives on my Linux box from my Window-based machine. What's the easiest way of doing all this?

Setup samba on your linuxbox, that works fine. I can help you with the installation if your configuration is not to heavy.

Best regards, Schoeppi