[KLUG Members] Networking - Linux - Win98 - Mac OSX

[Brandon Rasler]

My sister-in-law bought an Ibook, and I played with it this weekend.
I have a Linux server running nfs and samba with win98 and Linux
clients.  I tried several times to get the ibook to connect with nfs,
but found that samba was much easier.

In finder go to Go then Computer and enter the ip of the machine with
the smb share it will then give you a menu of all the shares on that
machine.  Pick one then enter your username and password then it will
put an icon on the desktop to that share.  I didn't get a chance to
try to automate the process at boot up, I would like to know how easy
that is.

I didn't think that the performance was great.  I had a share that had
a few hundred mp3's and navigating through that was at times sluggish.

I found the following link very helpful.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto/html/osxs
mb.html

Getting connected to the internet was a breeze.  I went to the
networking preferences and changed it to dhcp hit apply and I was
surfing through my IpCop box immediately.

SSH was the same in OS X as it is with any other *nix I have ever
used.

Mozilla for OS X is great!  The install was a drag and drop process.

With a DVD player and CD burner in one I really liked the Ibook and I
think that it will probably be my next computer.  I don't think you
will be disappointed if you buy one.

Brandon Rasler
Technology Associate
Menno Travel Service
tel. 574-534-1521
fax. 574-535-2158




-----Original Message-----
From: members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org
[mailto:members-admin@kalamazoolinux.org]On Behalf Of Jon Smitley
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 11:29 PM
To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
Subject: [KLUG Members] Networking - Linux - Win98 - Mac OSX


I'm considering getting an I-Book.(More for the experience of using
than
for the status).  I have a home network using Samba to link my Linux
Box
(dual boot ; Suse 8.1 & BSWare 8.0) to two Win 98 first edition boxes.
If I add a I-Book to this how do I get it into the network?  Mac OSX
has
these protocols:

	File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
	Web Sharing (HTTP) ( believe this to be Apache Web Server)
	Secure Shell (SSH)
	Windows File Sharing (SMB - Mac OS X 10.2 and later)

The windows file sharing sounds like a Samba server, but I'm already
running a Samba Server. These would conflict, I think.  Web sharing
sounds promising to work with both the other OS's, but I worry about
security.  SSH, probably the best bet, but on one hand I've never used
SSH, although I've seen it used at KLUG meetings, And on the other
hand,
I have no idea if Win 98 can use the SSH.

Any views or ideas are welcome and appreciated.  Thanks
--
Jon Smitley <lunitix@earthlink.net>

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