[Sderby] Re: Networking in Linux

[James Gibbon]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:44:26 +0100
Dave Coulson <david.coulson6 at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> I have my computer on a local network to my wife's machine, running 
> through a Netgear DG814 Router and two ethernet cards. I also have a 
> second hard disk on my machine from which I run Linux, booted from a floppy.
> I wish to be able to see my wife's machine from Linux but am not sure 
> how to set things up.
> Is Samba the answer and will it cause problems with the existing Windows 
> link?

That really depends on your wife's machine - I assume it's a Windows box? 
What exactly do you mean by "see" your wife's machine - read and write to
its hard disk?