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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alright, alright, I'll admit it, I'm a clueless
newbie. I may have been using playing Clanbomber and messing about with
the Midnight Commander for the last several</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>years but when it comes to installing and
configuring a network I have no idea what to do.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Basically my problem is that I have a 2.2GHz
Sempron machine, brand new, which I am having trouble getting up and
running. I've installed SuSU Linux 9.2 from a </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Linux Format coverdisk which seemed to install OK except that when I went
to start the X-server it didn't work. OK, so I checked the Web via a
different machine and </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>found I need to download a
file for my gaphics card (GeForce2 MX 400), the only problem is that I cannot
get my SpeedTouch USB modem to work either. Of course </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>the answer is download something (probably) so all I need to
do is get my modem working properly so that I can download stuff to get my modem
working properly, </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>erm.... Alright, no
worries, I've got a back-up machine, a 1G Compaq laptop running Windows
XP. No problem, I can plug my modem into my laptop, plug my laptop
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>into my desktop, and copy the stuff I need
across a miniature network, easy! Next question, how do I connect
Windows XP to bash? Ermmm..... No problem, this is </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Linux, I've got many potential sources of help - books,
man pages, help files, user groups, web-sites, mailing lists, etc., etc., etc.,
ad nauseum. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Where do I start?
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Aye, there's the rub! Look, all I want to
is copy a file, or several files probably, from a Windows XP laptop to
a Linux desktop, can't be so hard? The only question is </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>where the hell do I start? I assume I need to use Samba
but the online help file is several million pages long, I'm not interested in
becoming a fully qualified network </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>engineer (not
in the next few hours anyway), I've got one cable, two machines, surely there is
an easy way to make them talk to each other? Anyone know what to do,
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>or at least get a brainless How-To on
it?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Captain Redbeard</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>P.S. Regarding reviving my lost Linux partition,
thanks for the replies but I haven't gotten around to looking at it
yet!</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>