[luau] Linux newbie seeks easy transition

[Eric Hattemer]

Well, the NAT is easy.  MonMotha on the list here has a famous script
that makes that quite simple.  

What program is your financial stuff in?

Files backup, sharing, networking, and printing can all be done with the
SAMBA program, but I'm not expert on that.  

If you really want a network printer, you can buy a little box that
makes a regular printer (possibly only HP) and makes it into a net
printer.  But you shouldn't need a printer.  There is LPR printing
software for windows, and SAMBA creates a printer share as though it
were a windows print server.  

Unless you give some more information, it seems your main issues are
solved by SAMBA and SAMBA SWAT.  Look into those and ask the list for
help.  I've never really used those myself.  

-Eric Hattemer

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 22:34, Karen Lofstrom wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I just subscribed to this list today. I'm an experienced Unix shell user
> and I've had one course in Unix system administration at HCC, as well as a
> few other courses that used Unix peripherally. I am also the proud
> owner of a hand-me-down Linux box, which my chip-designer brother gave me
> when he didn't want to upgrade it any longer. He loaded SUSE 7.3 on it
> (all six gigs), handed me a few books on Linux system administration, and
> urged me to go for it.
> 
> Going for it is harder than I thought. I'm still using my old Win98SE
> computer for most things, simply because that's where I have all my
> software and files. Both the Linux box and the Win98 box are connected to
> a KVM switch, so switching between boxes is fine as far as the keyboard,
> video, and monitor are concerned. However, the speakers, printer, scanner,
> and modem are all still hooked up to the Win98 box. I'm only using the
> Linux box for games. Sad misuse of the beast.
> 
> I strongly believe in open source software and if I'm going to migrate
> from one OS to another, want to migrate from Win98SE to Linux, NOT to
> Win2k. But I'm not sure I'm ready for an abrupt jump. I'd lose too much.
> Like all my financial records, for one thing.
> 
> I'm guessing that a number of the folks reading this list have done a
> similar migration, so I'm looking for strategies and things to avoid and
> suchlike. My current thought is that the optimal strategy would be to get
> DSL, a NAT, a network printer, and then network the two Windoze computers
> in the house (mine and my daughter's) through the Linux box. But since
> money is tight until I have a job (I'm a student at HCC right now) I'm
> wondering if there's any way I can do this without buying a
> network-capable printer and new network hardware. Upgrading to DSL
> shouldn't be a problem -- if I ever get around to it -- because as a
> LavaNet shareholder, I get free service there. Would cost about the same
> as my current two phone lines.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> -- 
> Karen Lofstrom        SCIENTOLOGIST BAIT             lofstrom at lava.net
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