Networking my Vista and Linux

[MRKEENAN]

I am new to the linux Ubuntu 7.04 world ..and have just put it on my old Gateway PC and am very impressed w/ it's performance. I have just 2 q's

1) i does not show my Linksys router or the ip given by the router 196.x.x.x it is currently the ip of the local host 127.x.x.x.

2) i used to do regular backups of my Vista laptop to the secondary HD in my Gateway. Now i cannot even see it ? When i try both ip's is there a way i can share my 2nd hdd to Vista.

any help would be greatly appreciated. :D

[crow2icedearth]

When i try both ip's is there a way i can share my 2nd hdd to Vista.

are you dual booting with a NTFS vista paration ? if so you mount the vista NTFS under linux . NTFS is still buggy if you need to write to the drive.

if you are talking about networking two computers one with vista and one with linux then you would want to setup a SAMBA linux server. as well as you would need to add a few lines to smb.conf to make vista seen under windows vista. if you need any help i can pasted my config file for you.

once samba is setup you need to pasted

client ntlmv2 auth = yes
domain logons = yes
client lanman auth = no

into your smb.conf under global. i would check out samba doc on the samba website.

good luck .


getting vista to work with samba is tricky if you dont know to config it because MS changed there default security policys in vista. but i

[knute]

For the ubuntu box, you will also want to set up a gateway (the ip address of your router), and also the dhcp server (again the ip address of your router).
I think that there's a tool in ubuntu to be able to do that without having to go in and do it manually, but I don't know what that would be.
If I remember right (and it's been a loong time since I've done this), it's /etc/resolv.conf.
If you do man resolv.conf or man networking you should be able to find more specific information on setting this up.

HTH