[aclug-L] Re: Whining and bickering--and assistance to newbies

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Holmes wrote:
> 
> I have half a dozen linux manuals, as my schedule permits (full time work and
> college) I will answer any question I can look up in the books.  I an bearly
> over newbie, but, I am not too proud to look up an answer.  It may take a day
> or two, but I will help, as I too have found it very hard to get answers. John
> G. is about the only one who has been faithful in providing assistance.  I
> usually look for my answer on sunday night when he logs on.  I still have to
> figure out how to put a linux workstation on a NT network!

About the only thing I did was to put all of the local machines IP addresses
and names into the hosts files. For Linux this is /etc/hosts. For Windows NT,
look for hosts or hosts.sam somewhere under C:\winnt. hosts.sam is a sample
of what a hosts file might look like. This should be enough to let you ping
both ways, and to run ftp/telnet on NT and connect to the Linux box. (You may
also have to work with /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny, depending on how
security is set up on the Linux box.)

Of course, there's much more that _could_ be done, but that's as far as I've
pushed it. I don't use NT, and my NT user is happy just having telnet/ftp.

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