<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">To All</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Having been a member of this mail list
for a long time I have learnt a lot, but now I need some advice. But to
show where I'm coming from....</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Long long ago ( early 90's) I used a
Unix system as part of a Test Rig and I did the compilation of tweaked
files etc and backed it up to tape.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">(This was really handle turning but
as a 20 year old it was a bit of a buzz)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Then came the long years in the wilderness....</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For the last couple of years I have
been using DSL (versions 2 and 3) on an old 300Mhz 586 to get my hand in.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The DSL boot cd has been a great help
in wipping XP off my colleages PC's when they had video / mother board
driver issues (and needed to re-install XP...)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Now I'm running Suse 10.2 on a seperate
HDD on my home PC ( I love Multi Boot BIOS)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Now the problem I have.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am responsible test rigs with PCs
running NT or XP (There is one running Windows 3.0, but the least said
the better....)</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The short of it is I want to attach
a Lap top to the Rigs and back up the files. I was given a solution by
our IT department, but it was unreliable.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Now I have found using a Router has
been very successfull way of maping drives and copying files etc.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">What I would prefer is to do away with
the Router and use a cross over lead. Is this possible?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I would like a boot cd for the laptop
that starts samba , a dchp server and lets the rig connect to the Laptop
HDD. is this possible?</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The only problem appears to be the Laptop
runs XP, it seems to have been an issue in the past, but things do move
on... </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">regards, Alan</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Alan Perry<br>
Manufacturing Engineer (but not for long......)<br>
MEPQ (Test Equipment Engineering)<br>
Applied Materials UK Ltd<br>
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