On 20/01/2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > >> You can use a crossover cable to link the 2 machines. > >> You could then either > >> - statically fix the IP addressing on both boxes. > >> - run a dhcp server on the linux box and tell the windows machine to > >> pick up the information automatically (it may already be set up this way) > > If you have the avahi package installed, you should use the 'zeroconf' > mechanism to fail to an ip address in the 169.x.x.x range that will work > with anything else using the same scheme (like windows boxes). but then > you have to check the IP addresses or use something like samba that has > its own name mapping scheme. I don't understand completely, but I have enough keywords to start googling. Thanks. > >> (although my preferred system would be winscp/sshd...) > > I'll second that recomendation, although it needs DNS or you need to > know the IP address. Knowing the IP address is not a problem as I have access to both machines, no? I could simply check with ipconfig on the Fedora box, no? > > Thanks, Stuart. I like the idea about a DHCP server on the Linux box > > and ftp. Then _anything_ can connect to it. > > Be careful with running your own DHCP server... If you ever accidentally > plug it into someone else's network, expect to be thrown out and asked > never to come back. I'm on the university network every day, so this is important to know. Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
