[luau] Linux newbie seeks easy transition

[Eric Hattemer]

As for the financial stuff, look at gnucash.  That's the one I hear
about.  For the Nat, you need two ethernet cards in the linux machine,
and MonMotha's script, and the linux machine will do NAT quickly and in
the background.  It works quite nicely, and you really won't notice the
NAT is happening when sitting on the linux box.  So total hardware cost
is:

1 windows ethernet card
1 daughter's ethernet card
2 linux ethernet cards
1 3+ port hub
DSL service/setup
1 regular printer

If you already have some of this hardware, then you can subtract that
out.  For a home network, any cheap $20 network card will work.  They
don't work so well on MAC-monitored switched networks, as I found out,
though.  

Refer to http://monmotha.mplug.org/firewall/index.php
I believe there are complete instructions in there.  Basically its 3
steps if I recall:

1.  Put two ethernet cards into the linux machine.  Keep careful track
of which one is DSL and which one is LAN (hub).  Two different brands
can help with this if that's a simple solution (otherwise you need to
probably do a bit of trial and error to figure out which card is eth0
and which is eth1).  

2.  Modify a couple of small lines in the script to set which ethernet
card is local and which is the DSL, and any applicable firewalling
chaneges.

3.  start the script and put it in /etc/init.d.  Run some command like
chkconfig with certain flags that I don't know offhand.  

(4.).  Connect all the windows machines to the hub and set them for
auto/dhcp.  You should be set.

-Eric Hattemer

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 01:43, Karen Lofstrom wrote:
> 
> On 23 Oct 2002, Eric Hattemer wrote:
> 
> > Well, the NAT is easy.  MonMotha on the list here has a famous script
> > that makes that quite simple.
> 
> I buy the NAT, or the Linux box can act as one?
> 
> > What program is your financial stuff in?
> 
> Old old. Managing Your Money, circa 1994. But it does the necessary.
> Actually, since it's no problem using the Win98 box (thanks to the KVM
> switch), I could probably leave all the financial stuff there, and just
> make an effort to do my wordprocessing and net access through the Linux
> box. Eventually I'll want a Linux financial program ...
> 
> > Files backup, sharing, networking, and printing can all be done with the
> > SAMBA program, but I'm not expert on that.
> 
> It's late and I have to get up early tomorrow, but I checked out the
> samba.org website and it looks to be what I need. Thanks so much for the
> recommend. I'll probably be back asking questions about making it work :)
> 
> -- 
> Karen Lofstrom
> 
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