Re: [nottingham] nottingham - linux open evening Thurs Nov 15th

From: Paul Sladen (notlug@paul.sladen.org)
Date: Tue 16 Oct 2001 - 09:21:06 BST


On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Andy Brown wrote:

> Open Office or similar to show you can access files from MS Office (so
> we'd better have some office files)

Samba network -- have a Windows Laptop attached -- save an MSOffice file to
a `fileserver', and then pick it up and open it from one of the GNU machines
running KOffice, and another running Open Office.

Three birds with one stone -- ish.

> Firewall (how can we best demonstrate this?)

ping of death on the windows machine, with, and without a firewall in the
middle (not that I believe in blocking ICMP). Or SMB remote mount from
outside in the Windows machine, again, with, and without firewall in the
middle.
 
> How many machines can we get in the room (without overloading the
> electrics 8-)

Computers, or 21" monitors? ;-)

> What sort of networking are we setting up (Cat 5/BNC) What addresses
> are we using so people can get machines set up in advance?

Cat5 & DHCP.

Paul

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