I am without a clue as to setting up a LAN. On the other hand, there are reasons why I will have to. The two computers run on different OSs, mine being on Linux and hers being on another kind, not to be named. Where can I get advice as to how to set up a home LAN (2 computers) attached through a telephone line to the Internet? Thanks dj tuchler
. Whenever you want to know how to do something, it's a good idea to check out the HowTo's. There's one for networking. You will share files & printers both ways with her using Samba (remember the HowTo?). And she will reach the internet through your machine via "masquerading", which is a function of the firewall. (IPTables) I've always used my own script for firewall, but I hear Suse's is good. Suse has certain ways of doing things that are not like other Unices. So always go through the Suse Helpcenter. HowTo's are more generic *nix methods and procedures. On Friday, 26 April 2002 16:08, you wrote:
I am without a clue as to setting up a LAN. On the other hand, there are reasons why I will have to. The two computers run on different OSs, mine being on Linux and hers being on another kind, not to be named.
Where can I get advice as to how to set up a home LAN (2 computers) attached through a telephone line to the Internet?
Thanks
dj tuchler
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 16:52, Anon. Coward wrote:
. Whenever you want to know how to do something, it's a good idea to check out the HowTo's. There's one for networking.
You will share files & printers both ways with her using Samba (remember the HowTo?). And she will reach the internet through your machine via "masquerading", which is a function of the firewall. (IPTables) I've always used my own script for firewall, but I hear Suse's is good.
Windows can load and use Samba? djt
. Winduhs natively does administrative communication via their SMB protocol (Server Message Block). This was 'borrowed' by them from an archaic DEC messaging system. When Winduhs started communicating all over the place with SMB, one bright light remembered the old DEC protocol. He was able to fit this to *nix, back-engineer/tweak it to SMB and dubbed it Samba. Many of us thank you sir. :j On Friday, 26 April 2002 17:06, you wrote:
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 16:52, Anon. Coward wrote:
. Whenever you want to know how to do something, it's a good idea to check out the HowTo's. There's one for networking.
You will share files & printers both ways with her using Samba (remember the HowTo?). And she will reach the internet through your machine via "masquerading", which is a function of the firewall. (IPTables) I've always used my own script for firewall, but I hear Suse's is good.
Windows can load and use Samba?
djt
On Saturday 27 April 2002 00:17, Anon. Coward wrote:
Winduhs natively does administrative communication via their SMB protocol (Server Message Block). This was 'borrowed' by them from an archaic DEC messaging system.
When Winduhs started communicating all over the place with SMB, one bright light remembered the old DEC protocol. He was able to fit this to *nix, back-engineer/tweak it to SMB and dubbed it Samba. Many of us thank you sir.
Not quite. First of all, the DEC Pathworks, that you're referring to, is newer than SMB by about 6 years, and in fact used the IBM/MS SMB protocol. Secondly, the engineer in fact set out to implement support for Pathworks. He didn't "remember the old DEC protocol", he set out to support a brand new type of network that used the older SMB protocol. Thirdly, his name was Andrew Tridgell. My info is from samba.org and http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch01_01.html where is your info from? Anders
On Friday, 26 April 2002 17:41, you wrote:
On Saturday 27 April 2002 00:17, Anon. Coward wrote:
Winduhs natively does administrative communication via their SMB protocol (Server Message Block). This was 'borrowed' by them from an archaic DEC messaging system.
When Winduhs started communicating all over the place with SMB, one bright light remembered the old DEC protocol. He was able to fit this to *nix, back-engineer/tweak it to SMB and dubbed it Samba. Many of us thank you sir.
Not quite. First of all, the DEC Pathworks, that you're referring to, is newer than SMB by about 6 years, and in fact used the IBM/MS SMB protocol.
Secondly, the engineer in fact set out to implement support for Pathworks. He didn't "remember the old DEC protocol", he set out to support a brand new type of network that used the older SMB protocol.
Thirdly, his name was Andrew Tridgell.
My info is from samba.org and http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch01_01.html
where is your info from?
Anders
You sound like a real snot, Anders. I gave the best information I could remember from an article in Linux Magazine. Where were you? Looking in the mirror? P.S. DEC's protocol DOES predate SMB and WAS pilfered by M$.
On Saturday 27 April 2002 00:49, Anon. Coward wrote:
I gave the best information I could remember from an article in Linux Magazine.
You mean this (source: http://www.linux-mag.com)? And back in December 1991 something was getting into Andrew Tridgell's way. Andrew was 24 year old Ph.D. student in the Computer Sciences Laboratory at the Australian National University, Canberra. He had three computers and two filesharing protocols. And all three machines -- a PC running DOS, a Sun Workstation, and a DECstation 3100 running Digital UNIX -- needed to share files with each other. Tridgell had a program called Pathworks, that let the DEC box and the PC share files, but it was still hard for the PC and the Sun -- which used the Network File System (NFS) protocol -- to communicate. Getting DOS to handle two protocols at once was a nuisance, so Andrew took the direct route. Seized by the muse of the hacker, he did a little packet sniffing, and then set about creating a Pathworks-like program for the Sun machine. Samba's creator did not realize it at the time, but he had written an implementation of the SMB protocol.
Where were you? Looking in the mirror?
huh?
P.S. DEC's protocol DOES predate SMB and WAS pilfered by M$.
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