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SAMBA, Linux, Windows95... There are a few things that need to be right... Client for Microsoft Networks has to be installed and configured on the W95 end. TCP/IP should be configured as the "default protocol" on the W95 end. Tell W95 that it wants to use WINS name resolution. Give it the address of your Linux box as the name server. Make sure that your linux box has set at least one of its shares as browsable. If you want me to pop by and help you get it right, talk to me. Here's the full scoop on my home rig: My Linux box uses IP aliasing. eth0 is my home network with a bogus address of 222.222.222.1. eth0:0 is dummied up to fake out my wife's laptop with address 15.22.49.20. Using the samba 1.9.16p2 configuration file, I'm able to serve on both networks and my wife doesn't have to hack up her network config to use our home printer. Our Win95 desktop machine sits at 222.222.222.4. Because it is configed with both TCP/IP and NETBEUI, it can see the desktop machine *and* my wifes laptop with the alien addresses. Is there more? Yes. I carry a linux laptop. It has a PCMCIA ethernet card. It too is multihomed. eth0 is configed for home, eth0:0 is configed for the network at my current client's shop. In either place I connect the wire, flip up the screen (resume) and we're ready to rip. Now for real fun... We're doing a Java project. The java hacks are using Win95 and Visual Cafe. The source code is managed by CVS on a SCO box. We do the production compiles on the SCO box. How are we going to handle production grade CM if we've got all this code that needs to be compiled on Windog? *LINUX* Everybody doing Win95 Java work gets a sandbox on the Linux box. We export the sandboxes to the W95 stations using SAMBA. When it's time to check in the code, either pop up a telnet window to run CVS from the linux box or use the Win95 CVS client in the remote-mounted sandbox. Compiles? We'd love to do the compiles on SCO (yeah, right), but we can't because there's no 1.0.2 JDK for SCO (anymore). So we got Randy Chapman's Linux port of the JDK and we use Linux for the compiles. This place has been a long time Novell shop. Linux is being very well received. Serious talk about dumping Novell has started to circulate. All with the help of RSM, Linus, and a cast of thousands... chasb ----- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. chasb at kukla.tiac.net Journeyman UNIX Toolsmith http://www.tiac.net/users/chasb C, C++, OOA, OOD, perl, ksh, HTML, PostScript, make, RCS, tcl/Tk, admin --- if you're not running Linux, you paid too much ---
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