[Sussex] Connecting SuSE 9.2 to Windows XP

[David Chapman]

On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:26, Alan Delaney wrote:
> 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 years but when it comes to installing and configuring a
> network I have no idea what to do.
>
> 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 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 found I need to download a file for my
> gaphics card (GeForce2 MX 400),
I don't think you do.
The NVidia are well supported cards. The file you might be thinking of is 
NVidia's own driver which will give you a better display and 3D.

Can you give us the error message
Login as root and type startx
Then post the error message to the list.


> the only problem is that I cannot get my 
> SpeedTouch USB modem to work either.  Of course 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, 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
> 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 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.  Where do I start?  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 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 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, or at least get a brainless How-To on it?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Captain Redbeard
>
>
> P.S. Regarding reviving my lost Linux partition, thanks for the replies but
> I haven't gotten around to looking at it yet!