need some help with networking on a friends

[David A. Bandel]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002 14:41:56 +1000
begin  Keith Antoine <kantoine at bigpond.net.au> spewed forth:

> He has a windows machine on which i have just installed Caldera 3.1.1 WS
> in dual boot.
> .
> He has a lan on his machine for the kids computer, obviously 2 nics. I
> am having problems sorting out which card is which. Is there a simple
> way to tell which one is on the net and as its cable setup with DHCP and
> the other as the lan to the other machine.

it's called arp -- mac addresses are unique to each card.  Find out what
each card's mac address is, then use arp -an for remote machines or
ifconfig for local ones.

> 
> The other problem I need to know is what do I require to be setup on the
> main machine, so as it can share the internet connection with the other
> machine. Masquerading ??

iptables.  Take a look at my primer in last Sep's LJ.

> 
> Lastly the printer is on the other machine upstairs and I need to ba
> able to access that as well.

You can use CUPS w/ smbclient.

> 
> Long time ago i did this but no idea today.
> 
> Later on I will need to add a remote login so as I can config the
> machine from home, put files up etc. I have added a login for me and I
> imagine ssh as the login program, but I have never been successful in
> sending files over that protocol.

you use scp to transfer files (it's part of ssh).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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