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rhauff

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Posted: Jan. 29 2005,20:59

I have an unmodified install of 0.9.1 DSL. How do I go about browsing for other computers on my home network? Or, knowing the computer's network name, how do I connect to it?

The network connection is working fine (I am writing and sending this from Dillo right now).
Thanks,
Roland

cbagger01

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Posted: Jan. 29 2005,21:08

Two choices:

(1) Install the samba.dsl extension from the myDSL repository.

(2) Get DSL version 0.9.2 which contains the smbtree command line program to browse MSWindows networks.

You can also refer to your other computer by it's IP address instead of it's name.

Go to your other computer and open a command prompt window (assumes Windows 2000 / XP).
Then type ipconfig

Write down the computer's ip address and use it instead of the computer name for any connections from the DamnSmallLinux computer.

rhauff
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Posted: Jan. 29 2005,21:14

Hey, thanks for the quick reply!

How about just connecting to a linux computer? What I'm actually trying to do is use xmms on my dsl box to play files on my other linux computer. What would I enter for location in xmms?

cbagger01

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Posted: Jan. 30 2005,01:20

You can use samba to share files (add a file share) in addition to connecting to another computer's shares.

Also, you could start an ftp server and transfer the files via ftp.

An interesting solution might be a music server like edna.

The program is stored in the "net" section of the myDSL repository. Read the associated *.info file for more help.

Max

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Posted: Jan. 30 2005,17:21

Edna is WAAAY cool and simple to set up. All you really need on the second system is python. Edna is just a python script that will act as a web server on port 8080 (by default) to only serve up mp3 files.

After I read about it here at DSL, I went to the edna project site and downloaded the file to an old Red Hat server I had running and dumped about 3 gig of mp3 to it. Now my DSL box in the kitchen plays streamed music from it as does an old PDA I have connected to my stereo in the living room.

(Lately, I've been thinking about modifying the edna script to also serve up mp4 movie files to mplayer via TV-Out)

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Using DSL on: IBM T42, IBM 560x, Dell Dimension CPx

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