[CVALE] My next big step with Linux...

[Patrick Bennett]

It's very possible, and a good project for learning more about linux and 
networking. You'll either need a network switch/hub, a second NIC card 
for your linux box and a tool like "arno's iptables firewall" to help 
you set up the linux firewall and internet sharing capabilities, or a 
router appliance. I suggest the Buffalo WHR-G54S (~$45 at Best Buy in 
Stockton) flashed with dd-wrt linux based firmware http://www.dd-wrt.com/ .

-Patrick

Landon Blake wrote:
>
> I talked my wife Monique into letting me buy a new computer for my 
> Linux hobby. That’s right, no more hand-me-down computers for the 
> penguin! Woohoo!
>
> I’ve already got my new computer, which came has a dual core AMD 
> 64-bit processor, but Windows Vista 32-bit installed. (Can someone 
> explain the logic in that?)
>
> At any rate, I find myself in a dilemma, and I was hoping you guys can 
> help me with the solution. The computer I’m running Linux on will now 
> be as good or better than my wife’s computer, which runs Microsoft 
> Windows XP. That means I can start to use my Linux computer as my 
> primary computer. However, Monique isn’t the most technically gifted 
> person, and I don’t think she’ll be quite ready to make the jump to 
> Linux. I’d like to find a way to share a printer and DSL internet 
> connection between my two computers. (I already now the printer will 
> work well with Linux, because I checked that out before I made the 
> purchase, hoping this day would come.) :]
>
> I think I can do this by setting up small “network” with the two 
> computers. Is this within the realm of possibility if I’m not an IT 
> professional? Will it be fairly easy to have my computers share the 
> printer and DSL internet connection? Would I be able to use Samba or 
> something similar to share the files on each computer? How hard would 
> that be?
>
> Although I have a little programming experience and I have been using 
> Linux for a year or two, I must admit I’m a total networking noob. I 
> do have a couple of books that talk about networking on Linux.
>
> Do you guys think this is over my head, or worth trying?
>
> Landon
>
> P.S. – I’m giving my former Linux box to a seventh-grader, and hope to 
> teach him to be a Debian Linux user. I’ll need all the help I can get 
> for that task!
>
>
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