[ale] Home Network

[Jeff Hubbs]

Jim -

What I'd do is basically this.  Set up your router to serve up DHCP on
the house LAN but set aside a range of addresses (say, whatever.2 to
whatever.100, given that the router's inside-facing interface is set to
whatever.1) for static-IP use.  Then, set up one RAIDed system as a
Samba file server for both the Windows and the Linux machines, with its
IP address set somewhere within that static range.  You can set up the
file server to be one of the desktops, but personally, I have greatly
preferred having my file server do that and only that - I don't even run
X on mine, and I've had an uptime of over 300 days on it.  It's a good
job for a near-junker, as long as you can throw plenty of drives into
it.  Mine is a Socket 7 with an AMD K6-2+/550MHz, a dual ATA card, and
two 160GB drives set up as RAID1.

- Jeff

Jim Moore wrote:
> How do I set up a home network?
> This is my setup: 3MB internet modem--Netgear WGT624 Router--Laptop (XP 
> Pro/FC6) wireless: Lan 1 Desktop (XP Pro/FC5), Lan 2 Desktop ( XP 
> Pro/Debian "Sarge" 40G spare disk space), Lan 3 (98SE with second 40G HD 
> has Mandrake 8 on it but lost boot when 98 crashed,can only boot 98SE now).
>
> I've looked at Samba but don't know if it's what I need to use.  If I 
> did would I set up each machine as a server and a client like an Ultra 
> VNC setup?
> Eventual goal is to divest myself as much as possible from the Microsoft 
> choke up a few hundred dollars every three years situation.
>
> Jim
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