[Sussex] Re: Connecting SuSE 9.2 to Windows XP

[David Chapman]

On Monday 11 April 2005 09:38, Captain Redbeard wrote:
> Whoops, looks like the first part of my question got lost somewhere! 
> Anyway I'm trying to connect a laptop running Windows XP to a computer
> running SuSE 9.2 (with a broken X-server so command-line only), just one
> direct cable, nothing fancy.  I assume I need to set-up and configure a
> Samba server to get the two to communicate however the on-line manual is
> huge and I don't think I need to know it all.  Also all the books I
> bought/stole are fairly old and don't mention connecting to Windows XP so
> I'm not sure how useful they are.  Does anyone know of a newbie-friendly
> how-to on setting up a simple two-computer network to get my laptop and
> desktop sharing files?

yast
On the command line will give you the curses  version of YaST2
use this to setup your network card with an address of 192.168.0.1 and change 
the host name and workgroup to suit your needs.
In the network services section goto samba server and just follow the prompts.
If you have the Pro version of SuSE 9.2 you could setup a dhcp server as well 
just set a range of 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.4 this would save configuring XP
OR
Install webmin on the SuSE box with this command
yast -i webmin
Then you can configure the server from XP