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["Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

On 12 Oct 2003 at 12:04, qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> > Accoring to a file (see below) on the disc that came with the 
> > network card in the ASUS, one should use a rtl8139.o driver file?
> > 
> > So I found that at /modules/2.2.16/net/rtl8139.o
> > and got back into BL and eventually said insmod rtl8139.o
> 
> So far, so good.
> 
> > ifconfig eth0 192.74.53.10  
> >
> > ping 192.168.1.1  
> 
> Those are two different networks:  192.168.1.x and 192.74.53.x
> They do not automatically route to each other.  I suggest you do:
> --------------------------
> ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10
> --------------------------
> instead of 192.74.53.10.

Thanks again, Steven!

I am slowly (!) learning a little.

I made the two  192.168.1.1    and   192.168.1.2  
They ping each other just fine!

Now, how to have each computer "see" the other, like they do in Windows 
with Netbeui, via the two NICs and a crossover cable.

I tried "receive" and "send", but got 'Connection refused' or some such 
message.

I was thinking there's a small simple way to do it, but you had referred me 
to Samba?  Was it http://ftp.tiscali.de/pub/slackware/slackware-
7.1/slakware/n8/samba.tgz?  It's 5.5 Mb - do I really need all that to use 
with BL? (which was only about a 3Mb download itself, as I recall)
Would that include a client to let the Linux machine see the Windows one?

Anyhow, Samba  seems to have to do with Linux <-> Windows?  which I would 
like to do, and I did ask that originally.
But now I'm at what should be (?) a simpler task, getting two PCs running 
BL to see each other's files, allow transfers, etc etc?

I see there's something called "nfs"? 
http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/resources/howtos/HOWTO/NFS-HOWTO/intro.html#WHAT

Any comments will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Sheldon Isaac