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Has anybody ever connected a Linux machine to a Windows machine on anetwork?
Does it work? As the file formats are different, why would you even
do this, except to share a single internet connection? But has anybody ever done this? RL |
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Has anybody ever connected a Linux machine to a Windows machineon a network?
RayLopez99 wrote:
Does it work? As the file formats are different, why would you even do this, except to share a single internet connection? But has anybody ever done this? Yes, a long time ago. I can do it with a Mac, so Linux is no different. And a lot of my old files have been transferred and I can read them. The old exe files aren't worth keeping. |
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Has anybody ever connected a Linux machine to a Windows machineon a network?
RayLopez99 wrote:
Does it work? As the file formats are different, why would you even do this, except to share a single internet connection? But has anybody ever done this? Yes, many times. Now, for instance, where the machine I'm typing on is running XP, and the mail server is running Linux, as is the news server. Sharing document files between Open office on a Linux machine and Open Office on a Windows machine. Storing backups from Windows onto a Linux server. Next.... -- Tciao for Now! John. |
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Has anybody ever connected a Linux machine to a Windows machineon a network?
["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.advocacy.]
On 2010-03-27, the following emerged from the brain of RayLopez99: Does it work? As the file formats are different, why would you even do this, except to share a single internet connection? But has anybody ever done this? Are you serious? -- BOFH excuse #236: Fanout dropping voltage too much, try cutting some of those little traces |
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Has anybody ever connected a Linux machine to a Windows machine on a network?
On Saturday 27 March 2010 22:02 RayLopez99 wrote:
Does it work? As the file formats are different, why would you even do this, except to share a single internet connection? But has anybody ever done this? I doubt if there's a Linux user in this group who has *not* done this! You'd have to explain what you mean by "the file formats are different" - I really don't understand what you mean by that. If you mean what I suspect you mean, there's no problem - each OS is writing to its own disk anyway. Also, I don't understand why you are asking anywa, but I can guess - I think that you are thinking of trying Linux, but want Linux and Windows running simultaneously rather than dual boot, and that you think that you need to network two machines to do this. You don't... .... Install Linux, then install VirtualBox in Linux, and create a Windows Virtual machine. You will then have Windows running for all practical purposes as a Linux application, full screen if you wish, perhaps occupying one of your virtual desktops, and communicating to/from Linux via a shared direcory and/or the clipboard. I'm sure you've had all this explained to you in excruciating detail before.... |
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Has anybody ever connected a Linux machine to a Windows machineon anetwork?
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 15:02:07 -0700, RayLopez99 rearranged some electrons
to say: Does it work? As the file formats are different, why would you even do this, except to share a single internet connection? But has anybody ever done this? RL Of course it works. Open Office freely uses Microcrap Office file formats. Multiple open source players can play WAV, MOV, and other file formats. Why *wouldn't* you do it? |
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Has anybody ever connected a Linux machine to a Windows machine on a network?
John Williamson wrote:
RayLopez99 wrote: Does it work? As the file formats are different, why would you even do this, except to share a single internet connection? But has anybody ever done this? Yes, many times. Now, for instance, where the machine I'm typing on is running XP, and the mail server is running Linux, as is the news server. Sharing document files between Open office on a Linux machine and Open Office on a Windows machine. Storing backups from Windows onto a Linux server. Next.... Why would Herr Bonehead over there think the file formats are different? What magic idiocy does Windows use to screw up the format of a JPEG, or an MP3? Oh, right - none. Nor for any of a thousand other file formats. OpenOffice documents created in LInux work fine in Windows, and vice-versa. As to PDFs. And most video files. I realize it's RayLopez, Universe's Stupidest User speaking, but even he should be able to grasp that Windows doesn't magically cause file formats to change. |
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Has anybody ever connected a Linux machine to a Windows machineon a network?
On 28/03/2010 6:02 AM, RayLopez99 wrote:
Does it work? As the file formats are different, why would you even do this, except to share a single internet connection? But has anybody ever done this? RL OMFG try a search engine!!!! -- spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor and literally save someone's life: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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Has anybody ever connected a Linux machine to a Windows machineon a network?
Kelsey Bjarnason wrote:
Why would Herr Bonehead over there think the file formats are different? What magic idiocy does Windows use to screw up the format of a JPEG, or an MP3? Oh, right - none. Nor for any of a thousand other file formats. OpenOffice documents created in LInux work fine in Windows, and vice-versa. As to PDFs. And most video files. I know this, you know this, most posters here know this... I realize it's RayLopez, Universe's Stupidest User speaking, but even he should be able to grasp that Windows doesn't magically cause file formats to change. Probably thinks you should be able to use your Outlook Express mailboxes in Thunderbird. Just to show off, you understand, I've had Thunderbird in on a dual boot Windows and Linux box sharing a mailbox file without problems before now. The settings transferred perfectly, too. -- Tciao for Now! John. |
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Has anybody ever connected a Linux machine to a Windows machineon a network?
On Mar 28, 12:13*am, John Williamson
wrote: RayLopez99 wrote: Does it work? *As the file formats are different, why would you even do this, except to share a single internet connection? But has anybody ever done this? Yes, many times. Now, for instance, where the machine I'm typing on is running XP, and the mail server is running Linux, as is the news server. Sharing document files between Open office on a Linux machine and Open Office on a Windows machine. Storing backups from Windows onto a Linux server. Next.... -- Pretty impressive. I do the same thing with XP (NTFS) and FAT32 (DOS) with backups. Even though the file formats are different, I store, using Norton Ghost, the XP backup files on DOS. Ghost has saved me several times when I wanted to rollback XP because of a program that would not uninstall. But John you are a computer guru, tremendous mind, etc etc, and it probably took you a couple of months to set this up. What about us lesser mortals? RL |
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