Newbie: Homenetworking Feasibility?
OK, so this is a rather broad and vague question... but I have one of those home networking kits which includes a pair Netgear FA331 PCI cards and a 10baseT hub. It works fine between my two machines when both are running WinME. Both machines run happily dual booting SuSE 7.2 as well. After some thought, I might converts one machine - a Duron 900, to a more permamanent SuSE box and the other - an Athlon 1800+, to a "multimedia" WinME box. (Quiet for Serious use... and the noisier AMD "room heater" for my occasional vice of game playing? :-) I'd like to network the two machines for file and printer sharing. My networking experience is rather limited to software, so would my hardware setup seem sufficient? Looks like SuSE can recognise my network cards... as a generic "Internic" card(?) but I'm a little confused over IP addresses etc. and available protocols. I have set up things in a "professional" environment, but the networking side was the jealously guarded <grin> domain (sic) of "networking guys" - IP addresses were kinda "issued"! :-) But, this should be possible, Right? Really a BROAD indication as to whether someone has tried this sort of thing is the only requirement! Chris
On Thursday 28 March 2002 09:42 am, Chris.R wrote:
OK, so this is a rather broad and vague question... but I have one of those home networking kits which includes a pair Netgear FA331 PCI cards and a 10baseT hub. It works fine between my two machines when both are running WinME. Both machines run happily dual booting SuSE 7.2 as well. After some thought, I might converts one machine - a Duron 900, to a more permamanent SuSE box and the other - an Athlon 1800+, to a "multimedia" WinME box. (Quiet for Serious use... and the noisier AMD "room heater" for my occasional vice of game playing? :-)
I'd like to network the two machines for file and printer sharing. My networking experience is rather limited to software, so would my hardware setup seem sufficient? Looks like SuSE can recognise my network cards... as a generic "Internic" card(?) but I'm a little confused over IP addresses etc. and available protocols. I have set up things in a "professional" environment, but the networking side was the jealously guarded <grin> domain (sic) of "networking guys" - IP addresses were kinda "issued"! :-) But, this should be possible, Right?
Really a BROAD indication as to whether someone has tried this sort of thing is the only requirement!
Chris
You don't really describe your environment completely - it sounds as if you have two machines with network cards and a hub that connects to a larger network? Does this larger network issue DHCP assigned IP addresses, or are they fixed addresses? Or am I wrong, and you have just the two machines connected to each other via the hub? (I was confused by the reference to the "network guys"). Either case works, just minor differences in setting it up. To share files and printers between Windows and Linux you will need Samba client and/or server. -ronc
Initially, I had my home networking solution set up as follows: Cable modem<--->Linux PC<Paralell port>printer ^(IP Masquerade) +---HUB------->other machines My current solution is: cable modem<--->Cable Modem Router(which contains a 100 baseT switch. + Linux PC <--->Printer + Linux Laptop + Windows systems(2 desktops 1 laptop) For security purposes I prefer some type of separate firewall between the cable modem and the network. The inexpensive cable modem routers serve that purpose. Then each PC should have some personal firewall protection, although redundant it does provide additional protection when someone successfully cracks the outer firewall. You can easily replce the cable modem router with a dedicated Linux box running as your firewall. On 28 Mar 2002 at 14:42, Chris.R wrote:
OK, so this is a rather broad and vague question... but I have one of those home networking kits which includes a pair Netgear FA331 PCI cards and a 10baseT hub. It works fine between my two machines when both are running WinME. Both machines run happily dual booting SuSE 7.2 as well. After some thought, I might converts one machine - a Duron 900, to a more permamanent SuSE box and the other - an Athlon 1800+, to a "multimedia" WinME box. (Quiet for Serious use... and the noisier AMD "room heater" for my occasional vice of game playing? :-)
I'd like to network the two machines for file and printer sharing. My networking experience is rather limited to software, so would my hardware setup seem sufficient? Looks like SuSE can recognise my network cards... as a generic "Internic" card(?) but I'm a little confused over IP addresses etc. and available protocols. I have set up things in a "professional" environment, but the networking side was the jealously guarded <grin> domain (sic) of "networking guys" - IP addresses were kinda "issued"! :-) But, this should be possible, Right?
Really a BROAD indication as to whether someone has tried this sort of thing is the only requirement!
Chris
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