correct terms to use when searching?

Hello,

I want to connect my computers to each other. In order to do so, I
will need to learn how. I AM WILLING TO DO MY OWN RESEARCH -- I'm not
asking for any quick and lazy solutions. But I need to know what terms
to look under.

Would someone please tell me the correct terms for the following tasks?

1. reading and writing to a file on the other machine (file sharing?)
2. two computers both connect to internet at the same time, using one
computer's modem
3. remote power up / shutdown
4. view each other's screens
5. one computer runs Win98SE; the other runs both Win98SE and SuSE
Linux; and I want the machines to talk to each other, regardless of OS.
6. instant messaging to the user on the other machine

Thank you very much!

Ted Shoemaker

I'm not talking to myself. I'm a homeschooler having a parent-teaacher
conference.

On 2005-08-11, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to connect my computers to each other. In order to do so, I
> will need to learn how. I AM WILLING TO DO MY OWN RESEARCH -- I'm not
> asking for any quick and lazy solutions. But I need to know what terms
> to look under.
>
> Would someone please tell me the correct terms for the following tasks?
>
> 1. reading and writing to a file on the other machine (file sharing?)

Shared filesystem, would be one term, if I'm understanding you.

> 2. two computers both connect to internet at the same time, using one
> computer's modem

Connection sharing.

> 4. view each other's screens

Remote control software, or screen-sharing.

> 5. one computer runs Win98SE; the other runs both Win98SE and SuSE
> Linux; and I want the machines to talk to each other, regardless of OS.

No one term for the whole set.

> 6. instant messaging to the user on the other machine

No particular term that's better than "instant messaging".
--
Carl Fink (E-Mail Removed)
If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be.
-Bruce Tognazzini

"Carl Fink" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > Would someone please tell me the correct terms for the following tasks?
....
> > 5. one computer runs Win98SE; the other runs both Win98SE and SuSE
> > Linux; and I want the machines to talk to each other, regardless of OS.
>
> No one term for the whole set.

Sure there is ... it's called "networking."

(E-Mail Removed) writes:

> Hello,
>
> I want to connect my computers to each other. In order to do so, I
> will need to learn how. I AM WILLING TO DO MY OWN RESEARCH -- I'm not
> asking for any quick and lazy solutions. But I need to know what terms
> to look under.
>
> Would someone please tell me the correct terms for the following tasks?
>
> 1. reading and writing to a file on the other machine (file
> sharing?)

nfs (network file system)

> 2. two computers both connect to internet at the same time, using one
> computer's modem

routing, firewall, network address translation, iptables (among others)

> 3. remote power up / shutdown

If you've got an acpi-enabled machine, the shutdown command will take
a machine down. Don't know about powerup...

> 4. view each other's screens

You don't ordinarily do that in a Linux/Unix environment. You can
easily use the DISPLAY environment variable to run a program on a
remote machine, with its GUI appearing on your local machine;
monitroring what the other machine is doing is typically done with
traditional tools like ps and top, or monitoring tools like gkrellm

> 5. one computer runs Win98SE; the other runs both Win98SE and SuSE
> Linux; and I want the machines to talk to each other, regardless of
> OS.

"talk to each other" covers a lot of ground. In addition to nfs
(mentioned above), things like file sharing between Linux and Windows
is normally done with samba.

> 6. instant messaging to the user on the other machine

Out of my expertise.
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
skype: jjpfeifferjr

"Joe Pfeiffer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...

> If you've got an acpi-enabled machine, the shutdown command will take
> a machine down. Don't know about powerup...

Search for "WOL" or "wake on LAN". It's ugly though, I don't recommend
using it unless you don't have a choice.

DS

> 1. reading and writing to a file on the other machine (file sharing?)
> 2. two computers both connect to internet at the same time, using one
> computer's modem
> 3. remote power up / shutdown
> 4. view each other's screens
> 5. one computer runs Win98SE; the other runs both Win98SE and SuSE
> Linux; and I want the machines to talk to each other, regardless of OS.
> 6. instant messaging to the user on the other machine

Try "share windows files with linux" for the first one. Most results on
the first page will be about using Samba. For 2, try "share internet
connection".

steve

"ynotssor" <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> "Carl Fink" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> > > Would someone please tell me the correct terms for the following tasks?
> ...
> > > 5. one computer runs Win98SE; the other runs both Win98SE and SuSE
> > > Linux; and I want the machines to talk to each other, regardless of OS.
> >
> > No one term for the whole set.
>
> Sure there is ... it's called "networking."

Yes, but he wanted answers that would help him accomplish some sort of task.
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
skype: jjpfeifferjr

(E-Mail Removed) écrivait news:1123725549.471920.162020
@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
> 1. reading and writing to a file on the other machine (file sharing?)

File sharing: samba smb nfs coda afs

> 2. two computers both connect to internet at the same time, using one
> computer's modem

NAT (network address translation) masquerading cis

> 3. remote power up / shutdown

WOL (wake on lan)

> 4. view each other's screens

Remote control: X-Windows VNC RDP/TSE (remote desktop)

> 5. one computer runs Win98SE; the other runs both Win98SE and SuSE
> Linux; and I want the machines to talk to each other, regardless of OS.

?

> 6. instant messaging to the user on the other machine

Inantan messaging: jabber messenger icq aim

> Thank you very much!


Regards