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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

We are now visiting a friend with Windows XP.  Normally we could have 
booted with a DOS boot disk with laplink pro and transferred via serial or 
parallel cable.  He even has a serial port on the front of the computer.

But DOS will not recognize the XP file system.  So I need to use linux 
somehow.  We have plugged the ethernet cable into his router and I did the 
PCMCIA stuff and it found the ethernet card, then ifconfig eth0 
192.168.1.1 and I can ping myself.

udhchp (which I did afterwards) will also add dns 192.168.1.1 (I tried 
this after ifconfig eth0 down and got the same result).


info, Lease of 192.168.1.46 obtained, lease time 86400


We are plugged into the ethernet hub.


Ping 192.168.1.46 works, as does pinging my own computer.


And I can ping the other computer on the network, to which I want to 
transfer files.


I have ftpput, and kermit (which has ftp and telnet and kermit file 
transfer).  I can't find any ftp server on my laptop or on the WIndows XP 
computer.  I did not download the mini-httpd program and don't have any 
way to do that right now (no floppy drive, no way to transfer files 
between computers yet).


(Why, whenever I hit the down arrow or Enter, does pine take me to the end 
of the following paragraph here?  Is this something to do with XP?).

The number pad down arrow works properly.


I found /sbin/httpd.  I have never used it.  I first cd'ed to the 
directory containing the photos to be transferred, then typed httpd.
Nothing seems to have happened.  But ps gives http number 112.
(Enter key, number pad up arrow back to where I was....)

I have not been able to use IE to access 192.168.1.1 - it got me to some 
other website.  So I am now using kermit and kermit file transfer to 
upload all the photos to my sdf account, where I will move them to my html 
(public access) directory and download them to this computer here via IE.
I have now learned how to access a DSL ethernet hub with BL3, which ought 
to work with a Mac.  But how would I do a direct transfer between the two 
computers not using an intermediate such as sdf?  Address: 
http://192.168.1.1 did not work (with IE).

To access the DSL line I only needed to plug in the cable between my 
laptop and the ethernet hub, /etc/pcmcia/start, ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 
(or udhcpc might have been enough), and I was then on the network just as 
if I had dialed.
> > For the ethernet connection to the DSL modem, we would >use the static 
> > IP number of this computer, right?  Is there also some way to do











> > >direct file transfer via ethernet from linux to OSX?We\\





> Sindi,
>
> You need not use a static IP on your computer.If you are hooked to a
> hub,router,or directly to the DSL modem,the modem should assign an IP as
> most DSL modems are crippled routers themselves,you can use DHCP.If you set
> an static IP,make sure it's below the threshold of what the modem
> automatically sets.E.G. if the modem starts assigning IP addresses at
> 192.168.0.97,then use a static of 192.168.0.96 or below.
>    File transfer between OS X and linux should indeed be possible, as OS X
> is unix based.Use the samba server client onboard the mac.The instructions
> to setup samba used to be on the apple support site.It will involve setting
> the address of your PC in samba in this format,SMB192.168.xxx.xxx (depending
> your pc's IP).I'm afraid I don't know the details myself.With both computers
> on a hub or router it should be fairly easy.I'd get my instructions from the
> net,there is a step by step how-to out there.
>    You'll find on the road, carrying a cheap ethernet hub and a couple of
> cables will come in handy many times,and make life a lot easier.
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keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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