[Coco] Linux<->Windows Ethernet connection

[Roger Taylor]

At 08:20 AM 3/27/2006, you wrote:
>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
>>
>>
>>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.  :)
>
>Looks good... but if you're running a windows machine and you want access 
>to Linux dev tools, you can also run cygwin on the windows system.


I have CYGWIN on my XP computer, but the compiler I use is called HLA and 
there is no CYGWIN version (yet).  There is a version for Windows and one 
for Linux and I have both OSes ready to compile.



-- 
Roger Taylor