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Re: newbie questions starting out. seting network, 2 machines and internet sharing, sa
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| Analabha Roy 2005-08-14, 7:46 am |
| Trevor wrote:
> Hi;
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> I have 2 computers, laptop running XP Pro, and
> main Tower running 2 hard drives.
>
> The main tower is my problem.
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> I have 2 Hard drives. win XP on second drive 250 gig,
> Fedora core 4 on main drive 130gig. Bios is able to change
> boot order, but thats a thing as Grub is now able
> to boot to either os.
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> My first issue is what things do I need to setup
> and in what order to fill the following needs.
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> Tower is going to be the internet connection,
> so I need to be able to allow the windows equivalent
> of internet sharing.
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> I also want to be able to access the windows drive on the
> Tower from other machines on the network. ie Laptop.
> From what I gather Samba is the program here.
> The Windows drive is partitioned as NTFS c: and Fat32 d:
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> And I want Linux to be able to "take over" the laptop,
> the equivalent of windows remote desktop.
>
> So my questions are.
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> 1. What is the best install of Fedora 4 to easily achieve
> all this options. Workstation / Server .....
>
Simplest to choose "server" now. Read a few howtos
> 2. Can I do Workstation and then add the relevant programs.
Yep.
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> 3. Do I need to run NIS (what is it.)
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> 4. DHCP. The Tower is going to be the DHCP server as well,
> does it have to have the network card setup with its own
> ip address on bootup, or is it able to be setup with
> a DHCP address from the DHCP server.
The latter
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> 5. What other programs do I need to install, and in what order.
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You'll need "route", "iptables","Bind", & I recommend "shorewall" (google
it) if you want a NAT router.
> 6. What is/are some good books/internet sites, that will
> help understand all the above.
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Google
> I feel the network is my biggest issue, getting that running
> properly I think is the key to all the above. The network is
> all cables, initially there are only 2 machines Tower & Laptop,
> they are connected via a cross over cable, (just whilst setting
> all up) then it will run through a network box, allowing other
> machines to connect to network and Internet.
>
> Trevor..
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