Dennis Calhoun wrote:
I've decided to hold off on upgrading to Fedora until it's next release, to allow time for any unexpected bugs to be fixed.
Well - an ex-Windows user here, with only a couple of weeks FC experience and it looks to me like if there are any bugs, they are minimal and don't interfere with day-to-day operation.
In the meantime I've been trying to get Red Hat Linux 9 set up to serve a very small home network (only one other machine, running WinXP), with NO success.
I had a bit of a problem here - I have two PC's. Mine is still dual
boot XP/FC1 and my other, which is used mostly by kids and wife, is XP only. They, of course, want everything to work first time, every time and don't want to have to fiddle at all.
Originally I have two drives in my PC, 60GB for operating systems and
80GB for storage and this storage was shared and a drive mapped to it on the second PC.
Then I booted into FC1 and of course, the second PC couldn't see the data it was used to - no mp3's, movies, photos or anything. I couldn't see an obviou way to get XP to map drive D: to a windows share or to a linux share depending on how box one booted.
I solved the problem by taking the storage drive and putting it in the XP box, and sharing that. Now the family always have access to all the data no matter what OS I am using, and I can access it from both XP and FC1. I did the same thing with the printers and plugged those both into the XP box.
I found that doing it that way round made setting everything up VERY simple indeed. All I did was share the drive, made sure both machines were on the same workgroup, then went to smb://<ip address> and all the shares show up and can be mounted using /etc/fstab
Bryan Anderson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
