Connecting laptop to sever

[Nils Kassube]

John wrote:
> I have recently bought a new laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 installed.
>
> Whilst it sees the internet through me (SuSE 10.0) server, and reads
> the DNS files thereon, it will not display my intranet pages or allow
> me to mount any of the server's drives.

Can you clarify what you mean with "intranet pages"? Is there a http 
server running on your SUSE machine? If it is, is it configured to listen 
to the IP address of your laptop?

For mounting your server's drives (I suppose that means directories), you 
would need a NFS server running on your SUSE machine which is configured 
to export the directories you want to see from your laptop and it should 
listen to your laptop's IP address. On your laptop you need at least the 
package "nfs-common" installed. You can also make your directories 
available through SAMBA, but I can't help you with that (never used it 
myself).


Nils