Samba install problem

[Rickey Moore]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:58 +0100, Freedom Web Services wrote:


> My Linux machine is not yet connected to the internet!
> 
> I have a BT Voyager 100 ADSL USB modem and connect through AOL on my windoze 
> box.


With that USB modem, it might be easier to have your linux box as the
primary machine to the net, moving the USB modem onto the linux box,
adding a router or hub for a ethernet connection for the Windows machine
to your linux box.   I bought a Linksys router for $49 at Wally Mart.
Works very well. No need for samba to do ethernet. 

The best setup would be to have a plain ole external DSL modem doing all
the dialup and handshaking, plug the router to it, then plug all your
machines to the router. Linux likes that. Even Network Mangler can
manage that setup quite nicely and you can yum until your butt falls
off. :) 

Linux (UNIX) seems to like devices best that are standalone, like
external modems, requiring no system overhead to make them run. If that
USB modem requires Windows drivers to work at all, then it's robbing the
machine of a few cpu cycles and you're also tied to the evil empire
forever, just to talk to the net.    -Ric

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