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

[Jason Roysdon]

Landon,
   You definitely can do all that.  I would suggest starting small:

Use a Linksys or the like router to share your internet.  While you
could have two network cards in your Linux machine and share it with
that, every time you reboot your wife is going to get upset with you.
Make life easier.

The Linksys will do the NAT and PPPOE auth for you.

SAMBA/filesharing can be tough, but you can do it.  I'd start by making
a share on the Windows side and connecting to it.  Remember you need to
give share and filesystem permissions.
-- 
Jason Roysdon
http://jason.roysdon.net/



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!
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> 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?)
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> 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.) :]
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Do you guys think this is over my head, or worth trying?
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> Landon
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> 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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