Hi all,
After searching for a bit i decided I didn't know what I was searching for and certainly wasn't finding it.
I have one nice computer and one old one. I want to be able to use this nice one from the old one. I don't know what that type of networking is called so i haven't been able to find out how to do it.
A couple of links would really help me out here.
cheers, Duncan
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 20:18 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
After searching for a bit i decided I didn't know what I was searching for and certainly wasn't finding it.
I have one nice computer and one old one. I want to be able to use this nice one from the old one. I don't know what that type of networking is called so i haven't been able to find out how to do it.
A couple of links would really help me out here.
Here's one: http://www.brennan.id.au/
Paul.
A couple of links would really help me out here.
Here's one: http://www.brennan.id.au/
Paul.
Thanks Paul - looks tricky. Do I need to know all that just to run an old pc as a thin client? (I've been learning some terms).
I have absolutely no plans to host a site or mail server.
Duncan
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 20:42 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
A couple of links would really help me out here.
Here's one: http://www.brennan.id.au/
Paul.
Thanks Paul - looks tricky. Do I need to know all that just to run an old pc as a thin client? (I've been learning some terms).
I have absolutely no plans to host a site or mail server.
Just pick the bits you need.
Paul.
Paul Howarth wrote:
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 20:18 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
After searching for a bit i decided I didn't know what I was searching for and certainly wasn't finding it.
I have one nice computer and one old one. I want to be able to use this nice one from the old one. I don't know what that type of networking is called so i haven't been able to find out how to do it.
A couple of links would really help me out here.
Here's one: http://www.brennan.id.au/
Paul.
Thanks for sharing that URL, Paul (not to mention all the other helpful hints, instruction, and problem solving skills you provide)!
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 14:18, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
Hi all,
After searching for a bit i decided I didn't know what I was searching for and certainly wasn't finding it.
I have one nice computer and one old one. I want to be able to use this nice one from the old one. I don't know what that type of networking is called so i haven't been able to find out how to do it.
A couple of links would really help me out here.
Can you load Fedora on the old one? Will it support X windows? If so set it up then ssh from the old one to the new one.
You can then run programs on the new system and have their windows sent to the old system. I do this all the time with evolution and gimp and a few other programs.
You can even setup launchers that run the programs or scripts on the newer system. The launcher gives you a very nice password window for the ssh session. Or if you setup some certificates you would not even need the password.
This works very well over 100Mb networks and even works OK remotely over cable modem level access.
I use it over a wireless setup to a laptop. The added benefit is such connections are encrypted using ssh so you don't have to worry about your WEP key getting broken as much.
Other than a networking how-to, one thing I'd like to suggest is a great little Perl script which will help you calculate network addresses. It's called ipcalc.pl, and can be downloaded from here:
If you just type ./ipcalc.pl, it will explain the basic usage. Hope this helps.
- Robert
================================================= bob@sonic:~/program> ./ipcalc.pl
Usage: ipcalc [-n|-h|-v|-help] <ADDRESS>[[/]<NETMASK>] [NETMASK]
ipcalc takes an IP address and netmask and calculates the resulting broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and host range. By giving a second netmask, you can design sub- and supernetworks. It is also intended to be a teaching tool and presents the results as easy-to-understand binary values.
-n Don't display ANSI color codes -b Suppress the bitwise output -c Just print bit-count-mask of given address -h Display results as HTML -help Longer help text -v Print Version
Examples:
ipcalc 192.168.0.1/24 ipcalc 192.168.0.1/255.255.128.0 ipcalc 192.168.0.1 255.255.128.0 255.255.192.0 ipcalc 192.168.0.1 0.0.63.255
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