by Hi, I think this is probably a stupid idea to make such a network with a
serial cable since the price for network cards have become so low. Yet I
still want to do it just for the sake of interest.
The main goal of what I want to do is to share harddrives between Windows
and Linux. I think I should use Samba for mapping the Linux harddrive to
Windows. But since I am now using a serial cable instead of an ethernet
card, I am not sure if this can be accomplished. Can anyone tell me if this
is possible? I have configured sliplogin on my Linux box and trying to use
the hyperterminal from Windows to log into the Linux box. After I log in, I
see the message telling me the two addresses that I assigned, then I
cannot type in anything anymore. And when I go back to my linux box and run
ps, I see that sliplogin is running at S0. Then I tried to ping the windows
box and what I see on the hyperterminal is some weird characters. I think I
am able to ping the windows box but I cannot get Windows to respond to the
ping. Can anyone tell me what I shoud do now? Am I on the right track?
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