Setting up network

[Harry Putnam]

Bill Tetens <zuki269 at netscape.net> writes:

> I am ready to give up.  I cannot copy to the floppy on the linux machine 
> with any sort of certainy and I cannot figure out what is wrong.  I 
> tried to set up the e-mail but my e-mail is on netscape and I do not 
> have an Imap for it.  Just not my day. I cannot get anything to work.

Well in that case lets just start up again tomorrow. Or if you
prefer, lets take it off line.  You can write me privately if you
like. 

But now please do describe your situation a bit more.  I'm not
understanding it.  I thought you said something earlier about how the
windows boxes or box could see the linux box in network neighborhood.

If that is the case, can you access it thru network neighborhood?
Further this statement sounds screwy sort of:

 > tried to set up the e-mail but my e-mail is on netscape and I do
 > not have an Imap for it.

What on earth does that mean?  You have a mail account on
netscape.com?  If so, could you not access it from the `Mozilla'
browser on board your linux machine?  Where does Imap fit in?

Could you not start mozilla, go to yahoo.com and setup a free mail
account, like many others do?

Do you have X running on the linux machine?  That is, do you have a
graphical desktop to log in to?  If so, there are many tools there to
do this sort of stuff.

You could for example access this very list at news.gmane.org and post
to it from there. (using Mozilla or possibly Konqueror).  Do all this
right on line.  You could copy/paste till the cows come home.

In short, can you log into the linux machine and run stuff in
graphical mode?  If so, this doesn't have to be done with floppies and
all that kind of mess.

But even there that can work if you proceed methodically.

First make sure /mnt/floppy exists.  If not then as root:
  mkdir /mnt/floppy

insert a dos formatted floppy and as root: 
   mount /mnt/floppy

 rpm -qa |grep samba > /mnt/floppy/myoutput.txt

  umount /mnt/floppy

Remove floppy insert in windows box and copy that file where ever you
want.

I don't recommend that method of capture though.  It would be much
less labor intensive to access a mail account from your linux machine
in mozilla and do this stuff in the compose window.