[ale] Home Networking Opinions Please

[Jason Day]

I'm in a similar boat, but my wife's computer only runs windows 98, so
it's a little simpler for me.  My computer is usually linux, but I
sometimes boot into doze98 for games.

For sharing files, it's simple.  My wife and I both share the C drives
on our computers, so we can share files in windows mode (and yes, SMB is
firewalled off from the rest of the internet).  When I reboot to linux,
I have samba setup to share my windows partition using the same share
name, so from my wife's perspective, it doesn't matter if I'm in linux
or windows, it all looks the same.

The only tricky part is printing, and it's not really that tricky.  My
computer is the print server.  I set this up first in linux, using samba
to share the printer.  In windows, I just make sure to share the printer
using the same name, and again, from my wife's perspective, it doesn't
matter which OS I'm running when she wants to print.

This might be good enough for what you want to do.  Just make sure all
your shares have the same names in windows and linux and you're set.

If you want to have a true file server though, your best bet is to use a
dedicated third machine.  You don't have to use NFS or NIS.  NFS is
faster and more reliable than SMB, but I don't think there are any free
clients for windows.

HTH,
Jason

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:07:04AM -0500, Neal Wilkinson wrote:
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"Of course I'm paranoid, everyone is trying to kill me."
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