##POLL##Which version of Linux?

[Gyrene]

My world is the only world that I know.
Just because you use Debian, making you old fat and smelly, doesn't mean you have to be bitter about it.

 

[Nothinman]

Actually I'm young (all relative I guess) and scrawny, never been over 150lbs in my life and AFAIK I don't smell, but I've never really asked anyone. Maybe I've been using the wrong software all this time...

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Actually I'm young (all relative I guess) and scrawny, never been over 150lbs in my life and AFAIK I don't smell, but I've never really asked anyone. Maybe I've been using the wrong software all this time...

I use Debian on all of my PCs. But I *know* I'm young (me<20), I most certainly don't smell, and I weigh a whopping 120lbs. Maybe I've been using the wrong software all this time too

 

[BoomAM]

I dont know if you lot know this;
But according to the Knoppix website, when its put on a HD install, then its basically Debian, with Knoppix Logos.
Just a random fact.

I`ll be getting a ADSL router and two network cards.
So as long as its easy to set up Linux to use the network, then that`ll be ok.
I`d like it to be possible for the Linux machine to be able to access some, but not all of the drives on my other machine. Will this be possible?
And the Linux machine, will probably have the printer attached to it, so is it also possible to let windows print through the Linux machine?
And just to make sure. How will the router split the ADSL line? Will it be a constant 50/50, or will one machine be able to get all 100% of the bandwidth if the other aint using it?

Thanks in advance, again.

 

[Spyro]

I`d like it to be possible for the Linux machine to be able to access some, but not all of the drives on my other machine. Will this be possible?

Yes.

And the Linux machine, will probably have the printer attached to it, so is it also possible to let windows print through the Linux machine?

Yes.

And just to make sure. How will the router split the ADSL line? Will it be a constant 50/50, or will one machine be able to get all 100% of the bandwidth if the other aint using it?

One machine will be able to get 100% of the bandwidth if the other isn't using it.

 

[BoomAM]

Thanks Spyro(and others).
Would i need any other software to do that, or is it all built into Linux?

 

[drag]

You have to keep in mind that unlike Windows, every peice of software in Linux is third party.

So techinically no that software isn't built into linux.

But its provided by most Linux OSes anyways. I suppose OSes like SuSE and Redhat try to make it easy to use to.

Pluss their are a hundred different ways to do any one thing.

Probably what your looking for if you want to do linux/windows networking is Samba. It's basicly windows networking for Linux, and you can share directories and mount directories(entire drives if you like), to and from Windows OSes, plus you can use it to share printers. It's named after the protocol that windows uses for networking stuff, SMB.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: BoomAM
Thanks Spyro(and others).
Would i need any other software to do that, or is it all built into Linux?

You won't need any other software in order to do routing with Linux.