[Sussex] Re: Connecting SuSE 9.2 to Windows XP

[Ronan Chilvers]

> Install Samba on the Linux box and share a directory so that you can copy
> files. This isn't actually very difficult. Note that to connect the 2 PCs
> together you will either need a cross-over network cable or 2 ordinary
> "straight" cables and a hub or switch.
>

Alternatively, might be worth trying t'other way round and attaching to
a WinXP share from Suse.  Might be easier / quicker than tinkering
around with the Samba daemons.  Of course you'll still need some
cabling, etc to hook it all up with.  Have a look at the smbclient and
smbmount commands.  You'll probably find you need to be root to mount
the share (very frustratingly never cracked doing arbitrary smb mounts
as a normal user - anyone? from the command line that is), but you can
then bash into the shared folders / use MC / whatever to copy across
what you need.

Don't know Suse so it may be that Yast has a cunning doodah that sets up
samba for you, so YMMV.

Speedtouch resources can be found here

http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/about/index.html

I nipped carefully around this problem by installing IPCop on an old PC
and plugging my speedtouch (blue flat one) into it.  Works a treat.
Smoothwall also works great with it.  You'll need the firmware from here:-

http://www.smoothwall.org/get/ (down the bottom of the page)

You can use this firmware with both IPCop and Smoothwall. (You may need
it for the native drivers above as well).

HTH

Cheers

--
Ronan

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