newby: connect a linux-pc with another one using windows

Hi to everyone in this group,

I'm using windows 98 in my office (don't flame me, I need special
applications that won't run under linux.)

Now I'd like to setup another pc using linux to acces the internet and
read my email.

And here comes the question: How do I build a lan connecting my new
linux-pc with my old windows-pc? Can I use any linux distribution? I
have the eays-linux-project, 'cause it was on an magazine-cd.

Hope anybody can help me.

Greetings out of cyberspace,
mondspeer

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mondspeer wrote:

> Hi to everyone in this group,
>
> I'm using windows 98 in my office (don't flame me, I need special
> applications that won't run under linux.)
>
> Now I'd like to setup another pc using linux to acces the internet and
> read my email.
>
> And here comes the question: How do I build a lan connecting my new
> linux-pc with my old windows-pc? Can I use any linux distribution? I
> have the eays-linux-project, 'cause it was on an magazine-cd.
>
> Hope anybody can help me.
>
> Greetings out of cyberspace,
> mondspeer
>
> (please reply in the newsgroup only.)

If your office workspace has a standard lan and you use a DHCP server on
the lan, then linux will connect to the internet just like any other
computer. Any distro would work, however it will probably be easier if
you find a newer one that matches the hardware you have.

To access files between a linux and windows pc, you need Samba (comes
standard will almost all distros). Look online for more info on Samba.

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(E-Mail Removed) (mondspeer) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...

> And here comes the question: How do I build a lan connecting my new
> linux-pc with my old windows-pc?

Use samba and RTFM.

Web Site:
http://www.samba.org/

Documentation:
http://samba.linuxforum.net/samba/docs/

> Can I use any linux distribution?

Use Debian GNU/Linux

mondspeer wrote:

> Hi to everyone in this group,
>
> I'm using windows 98 in my office (don't flame me, I need special
> applications that won't run under linux.)
>
You might want to look at Win4Lin. It lets you run Windows 98 as an app
under Linux


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Mauriat <usenet@NOSPAMmjmwired[dot]net> wrote in message news:<A_mdnWVCvo6ZruWiU-(E-Mail Removed)>...

> If your office workspace has a standard lan and you use a DHCP server on
> the lan, then linux will connect to the internet just like any other
> computer. Any distro would work, however it will probably be easier if
> you find a newer one that matches the hardware you have.

Well, the hardware isn't that new. *grin*

> To access files between a linux and windows pc, you need Samba (comes
> standard will almost all distros). Look online for more info on Samba.

There ain't no lan by now, I will have to build one by myself.
Thanks for your answer.

I'm going to try it.

Greetings out of cyberspace,
mondspeer

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James Knott <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<Rr2eb.159338$(E-Mail Removed) able.rogers.com>...

> You might want to look at Win4Lin. It lets you run Windows 98 as an app
> under Linux

Thanks for the information, but for the moment it seems to be to
expensive for my small one-man-office. But who knows how thing are
gonna develop.

Tanks anyway to all who helped.

Greetings out of cyberspace,
Mondspeer

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