[PLUG] 2.6.19 or later, amd64

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Tue Mar 27 01:49:17 UTC 2007


On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:42:31 -0700
"Jason Martin" <nsxfreddy at gmail.com> dijo:

> > Your router is likely 192.168.1.1 ... from the looks of the address scheme
> > you have a Linksys ;-) but I could be wrong.
> >
> > Those are both valid addresses, so if they can ping each other then they
> > can do other things like share files via samba or NFS. So they are
> > networked, just a matter of what you want them to do.

I could swear the router was -100. And when you wrote that I
immediately thought "no, -1 was the very first computer that I had that
was networked and it has been dead for several years." But I just
pinged 192.168.1.1 and got a response. You don't get responses from
dead computers. So I must have recycled the number when I installed the
router, several years after the original computer died. What I need to
do is turn on all the computers and all the laser printers, figure out
their addresses, then make a list and rememberize it. Or tape it to my
head.

> You don't say what sort of sharing you are trying to do.  Be aware
> that Fedora comes with a firewall which is enabled by default.  You
> can see/edit the basic firewall settings with a GUI called
> system-config-securitylevel, through the Gnome menus
> System->Administration->Security Level and Firewall.

Already been to the firewall. Turned it off while finagling this stuff. 

> But mainly you have to be more specific about "sharing" if you want
> any help here :-)

I want to do two things: 

1) I want to be able to back up the laptop to the desktop. That is, to
a new 250 GB RAID 1 partition that I haven't made yet.

2) I want to be able to drag and drop occasional files back and forth.
I want to be able to do this from either computer. At the moment they
are next to each other, but they might not always be so close.

Drew mentioned nfs. I'll google on that a bit.

> Regarding repositories, I am not sure if the Extras repository is
> rebuilt to work with testing images.  Also, one of the "features" of
> Fedora 7 is the elimination of the distinction between Fedora Core and
> Fedora Extras, so there may be some problems associated with that
> work.  Also note that Pirut comes with Fedora, and while not as nice
> as Synaptic, should show you the packages available in a GUI.  Adding
> a repository manually in /etc/yum.repos.d is not too hard, and once it
> is enabled there it will just work with any of the yum-based tools.

I was aware that Fedora 7 merges the Core and the Extras. But I didn't
know about /etc/yum.repos.d. Is that the equivalent
of /apt/sources.list? If so, where do I find a list of repositories so
I can add them?

And that reminds me of another thing that would make my life easier.
How can I fix Fedora so I don't have to type /sbin/ in front of just
about every command? That is getting tiresome. A link? (Not an expert
on links.) A dos-like path statement? If so, where does it go?



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