openSuse to XP home using only cat5 xover cable?

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Back in the old days of windows98 one could use an ehternet crossover cable to connect two computers . Can I do the same between Suse and XP Home edition. Anyone know how? I have the two computers, the cable, and the desire. Don’t know how to get it done from the Suse side. any suggestions?

Thanks

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On Sun May 17 2009 05:06 pm, stitzenheimer wrote:

>
> Back in the old days of windows98 one could use an ehternet crossover
> cable to connect two computers . Can I do the same between Suse and XP
> Home edition. Anyone know how? I have the two computers, the cable,
> and the desire. Don’t know how to get it done from the Suse side. any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
>
stitzenheimer;

You need to enable Samba on your Opensuse. A crossover cable is all the
hardware you need for two machines. If you have more than two machines it
will pay to buy a switch.
A good HowTo is:
http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtolanprimer.html
You will find this and other HowTos here:
http://www.swerdna.net.au/linux.html

If you run into problems just post again.

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I guess the first thing to check is that the 2 machines can see each other. Try pinging the windows box from the linux box and vice versa. If thats all good then the next step (depending on your exact requirements) is setting up samba for file sharing. I recommend you have a read of this tutorial:

Samba and Suse: HowTo Set up an openSUSE-Windows Home Office LAN/Network. Versions 10, 11

Similar thread:

http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sls-archives/archives-suse-linux/archives-network-security/383650-cross-over-cable-help.html

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Sure. But remember that there won’t be any DHCP server to hand out addresses to the two machines so you need to set them up with static addresses in the same subnet.

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XP will set itself up with an APIPA address of 169.254.x.x if there’s no DHCP server but DHCP is selected in the network options.

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@stitzenheimer — Just an afterthought while cruising by: The cat5 cable connection is reminiscent of what I used to use for windows Internet Connection Sharing many years ago. If the objective is only to share files, then Samba is the tool. But if you have an additional objective to share the internet from one to the other, that’s achievable too. If you need that second aspect, you could look at this tutorial: openSUSE ICS: Internet Connection Sharing (Linux IP Masquerading) with Suse or Windows Servers

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Sure, so will SUSE too actually. But you’d have to find out what the addresses are if you are going to do anything needing them. Perhaps not netbios activity, but any IP based work. So why not avoid the timeout and assign addresses yourself anyway.

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Without samba:
Install samba only if you really need it - Like, if you want to run an application on the XP that writes to the disk on the openSUSE machine etc.

If you simply want to copy files across those machines, just make the XP directories sharable (easy to do) and do a network browsing from openSUSE with Dolphin/Konqueror. You can just drag and drop across different folders.