Difference between revisions of "Direct PC Connection"
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Your friend has a network card. Yay ! | Your friend has a network card. Yay ! | ||
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Your friend does not have a network card, but has usb ports. | Your friend does not have a network card, but has usb ports. | ||
No problem ! Buy a usb network adapter and connect on his/her PC. | No problem ! Buy a usb network adapter and connect on his/her PC. | ||
An example is the Linksys USB200M 10/100 USB2.0 network adapter, fairly inexpensive. | An example is the Linksys USB200M 10/100 USB2.0 network adapter, fairly inexpensive. | ||
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===Likely required: Static IP setup on the Linkstation=== | ===Likely required: Static IP setup on the Linkstation=== | ||
Revision as of 21:08, 17 December 2006
Contents
Direct PC Connection
So you go to a friend's place and you'd like to share some files. How ?
USB bridge cable
Unknown. they seem to require both ends to use the same software, and generally runs on Windows-only machines. TBD.
Ethernet to Ethernet
Option1: Standard Ethernet cable
Your friend has a network card. Yay ! Just connect using a standard or crossover Ethernet cable. The cable supplied with the Linkstation is a standard Ethernet cable.
The reason you don't need a crossover cable is that on the LS1 you can change a crossover switch to mimic the crossover cable, and on other Linkstation models, they are "auto-sensing" so will automatically create the crossover if needed.
In case you'd want to create a crossover cable anyway, for fun, here's howto: The image below shows the pin-layouts for the standard network crossover cables. The differences are just the colourt of the cables.
If you have...
- 568A on both ends, then it's a straight through cable.
- 586B on both ends, then it's a straight through cable.
- 586A on one end and 586B at the other, then it's a crossover cable.
<add crossover how-to here>
Option2: Standard Ethernet cable and usb network card
Your friend does not have a network card, but has usb ports. No problem ! Buy a usb network adapter and connect on his/her PC. An example is the Linksys USB200M 10/100 USB2.0 network adapter, fairly inexpensive.
Likely required: Static IP setup on the Linkstation
as per lb_worm's suggestion, on your Linkstation, change those 2 files:
1) set the /etc/network/interfaces to:
- Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
- /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.
auto lo iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.11.160 netmask 255.255.255.0 geteway 192.168.11.1 network 192.168.11.0
auto eth0:auto iface eth0:auto inet dhcp
2) Edit the dhcp config file /etc/dhcpc/config to:
- Config file for dhcpcd.
case ${INTERFACE} in eth0)
- Uncomment this to allow dhcpcd to set the DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf
- If you are using resolvconf then you can leave this commented out.
SET_DNS='yes'
- Uncomment this to allow dhcpcd to set the NIS domainname of the host to the
- domainname option supplied by DHCP server.
- SET_DOMAIN='yes'
- Uncomment this to allow dhcpcd to set hostname of the host to the
- hostname option supplied by DHCP server.
- SET_HOSTNAME='yes'
- Uncomment this to allow dhcpcd to set the NTP servers in /etc/ntp.conf
- SET_NTP='yes'
- Uncomment this to allow dhcpcd to set the YP servers in /etc/yp.conf
- SET_YP='yes'
- Add other options here, see man 8 dhcpcd-bin for details.
OPTIONS='-d -t 30 interface eth0:auto'
- Add other interfaces here
- )
esac
The -d option will generate some debug.
Likely required: Static IP setup on the PC
Windows XP:
Start->Control Panel->Network Connections.
Right click on your network adapter(likely called "Local Area Connection"
->Properties
Select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
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