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On Tuesday 21 December 2004 19:15, Paul Sutton wrote:
Hi Anyway it seems I have finally got the ezmovie maker thing installed so I just need a way to be able to save any files created on my main computer tried networking from XP to 98 and it does not like a set up where all computers connect to the net via a hub as it says its difficult to share files that way. (98 never had a problem), anyway it did something on XP so I am trying to at least get XP to talk to 98 with network sharing,
There is no reason why 95,98,Nt,2k,Xp and linux cannot all play nicely using SMB so files can be shared and each system can access the other with or with out a designated domain controller. What do you mean by "it does not like a set up where all computers connect to the net via a hub". Where is your internet connection? is it through the hub (eg the hub is actualy a router) or is one PC connected via a modem etc? If it is through a PC then if that PC is running linux it is no problem, if it is running XP it works and even with 98 it can be done (although IMHO i would not have a win* system as a gateway). What is important is that EACH system is given an ip address in the same subnet ie 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 etc., each system is told the DNS address of your ISP's dns servers and that each system NOT directly connected to the net is told the "gateway" is the ip address of the system with the modem (or the router's address). If you want to share files via SMB then each system should also have the WORKGROUP set the same. eg use OFFICE for all systems. Just watch out for firewalls!
Any recomendations Once I can get this working I will go back to trying to set up samba. Paul -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
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