frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assumming you can get some sort of ethernet connection, install apache/some > web server on the computers you want files off. This how I transfered files > off my brother's winblose box, just needed him to enable tcp/ip, and install > the windows apache off a computer mag CD, and copy the files to the right > place on his computer. It worked for me. > You might meed a web browser too... > Setting up samba is a black art, and I dont have it (why?). > > The problem with this setup is 'you are not allowed to alter the win98 setup > in anyway'. Have they removed the on switch? Just install apache in your > space, and as it only runs when you start it in a terminal (bos box), how > will they know? Tcp/ip is probably already on, so just run ipconfig.exe to > find out the ip address of the winblows box, and point your linux browser at > it.
They have already threatened to take the only system that I can use on our ethernet away... the windows one, it has a built-in ethernet port. It is the only one that I can access the internet with. I have no space on it. The entire harddrive is shared. If my brother, on another machine, wants to delete my homework, he can (but wouldn't get away with it). Because of broken hardware, no cash, and windows acting like windows after a brick hits them, the standard routes of file transfer seem to be closed to me. I have just recently noticed a possible method to link these computers, but I have yet to work it all out. I hope it works, yesterday I couldn't access the howto's that I wanted to refer to for this connection, so I started collecting the packages I would need to compile a new kernel. I had to transfer 22 M by _floppy_. My possible method is to connect the systems with a serial cable, and setup the windows computer for a dial-in connection using an exterior modem that uses the same serial port that I have the cable on, and and select SLIP for the dial-up server type. On the other end, I respond like a modem would for the AT sequences (each time a sequence is received, transmit OK). After the "phone number" is dialed, initiate SLIP. I hope this will work. Its current problems during the initial testing process are: it kills the windows computer's connection to the internet, and I haven't figured out yet the best way of automating the "modem" responses. I already know to send OK after 3 characters arrive, send OK 8(I think, it's in a logfile) characters later, and so on Time for a byte to eat, Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps. how long do you think it took to transfer the kernel source by floppy
