[Coco] Linux<->Windows Ethernet connection

[Frank Pittel]

You can setup a samba server on the linux box and then "mount" it from your
windows machine as a shared drive.

Frank



On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 11:31:53AM -0600, Roger Taylor wrote:
> 
> Does anybody know of a good way to network Red Hat Linux 9.0 with Windows 
> XP SP2 over a cross-over Ethernet connection?
> 
> My Linux box is actually a dual-boot system with Windows XP.  I have a 
> FAT32 drive setup just for swapping files between the two OSes.  If I can 
> share this drive using some common network protocol that both OSes include 
> then I suppose this would work.
> 
> All of this pertains to CoCo development and web site scripts for 
> CoCo3.com.  I don;t use Linux for all of my work but mainly, for now, just 
> use it for compiling HLA software and then I move those Linux binaries back 
> over to Windows where I upload them to my remote Linux-based web servers 
> for running.  Until HLA gains the feature to compile Linux binaries from 
> Windows (it will eventually), I have to work this way if I am to write 
> software/scripts for Linux systems.
> 
> I need to be able to stay working on both Linux and my XP laptop at the 
> same time and access the Linux files from Windows at any time.
> 
> 
> 
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> Roger Taylor
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