[SC.LUG] What a knowledgeable bunch!

[Ian Molton]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 10:20:57 +0100
Richard Pineger <richard.pineger@kudos-idd.com> wrote:

> 
> - Can I just run a lead with an RJ-45 connector on each end between
> the two ethernet cards? (I think I can configure ethernet at both
> ends).

You will need either two ethernet cables and a switch, or a single
*crossover* cable (the latter may not work on all network cards but is
significantly cheaper.) (the crossover cable swaps rx and tx lines)

>- I'd prefer to run a separate KDE session on the Win95 box so
> that she isn't really running Windoze at all - is that poss?

you could run an X server under windows and host the session on your
linux box...

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