[Coco] Linux<->Windows Ethernet connection

[Frank Pittel]

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:42:01PM -0600, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 11:50 AM 3/26/2006, you wrote:
> >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.
> >>
> >
> >Roger,
> >
> >Not sure why you'd want to go with RH9, it's ancient, there's been 5 
> >Fedora Core releases since then. I'd highly recommend ditching RH9 and 
> >going with anything modern, as a lot has changed since the RH9 era. 
> >(mostly for the better)
> >
> >In terms of networking two machines together, its relatively 
> >straightforward. If you only ever plan on having two machines the 
> >crossover cable is fine, but if you go with a small switch you can add 
> >other systems to the mix as well.
> >
> >Essentially you'll have to give each system a static IP address, and run 
> >Samba on the Linux box to share files between the two. It's not terribly 
> >difficult once you've done it a hundred times!
> >
> >-Mike
> 
> 
> If you have a hot second later I'll give you my # and maybe you can walk me 
> through it.  I learned out how to enable Samba in RH9...
> 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start

"chkconfig --level 35 smb on"  For more information see "man chkconfig".

> It says it started SMB and NMB? with [OK] so I think it's running and I 
> hope this stays running on each boot.  If not, how do I automate it?  I 
> can't remember how I automated the mounting of my FAT32 drive in Linux but 
> I did and it's mounted when I boot as well.
> 
> I don't know where to go in Linux to assign an IP address, and am lost from 
> there if I do.  :)

Do you have X running on the linux machine?