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Networking with Linux
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| Hi:
I am new to Linux. Just set one up at home and very excited about it. Now I want to network it with my NT box, Windows 95, and my Novell server.
Can someone help me with this?
Can I use just ipx/spx? Does Linux support IPX/SPX, if so how do I set it up?
Thanks a bunch.
-Sysco | |
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Get a book for integrating linux with Win or NT.
It will be a great help. Instead of just telling you what to do.
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| For NT or Windows 9X/ME, use Samba. For Novell, I don't think Unix or Linux supports ipx/spx but Novell supports tcp/ip. | |
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| Thanks for the suggestions.
Next Question:
In Windows environment, in order to find out who's on the network, you can double-click on the Network Neighborhood. Is there such utility in Linux, i.e, how do I find out who's who on the network not to mention Ping or Finger?
Thanks in advance for the help.
-Sysco
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| you need to use SAMBA and then use the "smbmount" command where you specify the local directory of your remote clients/files. this will give you the opp. to automount these later. but dont. only mount when you need them. 
smbmount //your_Win_PC/Directory /where_you_wanna_mount -u <username> -p password
you can just mount and let it prompt you though
you must create a directory to reflect the local mount point! | |
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| To network your Linux box with NT you have 2 main options: Samba or NFS. Linux supports most networking protcols including IP, IPX, AppleTalk (unfortunately), and NetBIOS.
I'd advise against using NFS because it can create a lot of security holes and to my knowledge there aren't any free NFS programs for Windows. NFS is better suited to run between *nix boxes.
Samba is a free program that makes a Linux box appear as an NT box on the network using NetBIOS. Using a GUI like SWAT can make configuration a lot more fast and easy. You can dowload Samba, and get a lot of good documentation at samba.org.
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Matt
CCDA, CCNA, Network+, A+ | |
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| I bought a book on networking Linux for SOHOs, if you want to buy it from me. Email k7384@yahoo.com |
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