Re: [PLUG] OT: Large Wireless Network on the Cheap

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 08:03:00AM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 14:10:16 -0400, eric@lucii.org <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
> > So you're telling me that if I run a wireless access point rather than
> > a wireless router then even MAC address authorization won't protect me.
> > What is there then?  WAP (or WEP or whatever that encryption stuff is?)
> 
> There's WEP or WPA (which comes in 2 flavors - PSK or "Enterprise"). 
> PSK is pre-shared key, a common value that all WPA clients use. 
> Enterprise requires a RADIUS server on the network to authenticate
> users.  Personally, I use WPA Enterprise here at home.  Makes it
> simple to allow a friend on to the network one day and when he leaves,
> remove his ability to use it.  Another alternative is one of the
> proprietary authentication schemes such as LEAP, but that requires
> some fairly expensive hardware.
> 
> > I bought a wireless router and my daughter compains that she cannot see
> > the shared drive on the server or the printer.  I want to replace it with
> > a wireless access point but don't want to invite "the neighbors" in.
> 
> That really shouldn't make a difference.  If you really want to go
> cheap, verify that IP connectivity exists between your daughter's
> machine and the machine where the shared drive is and setup a shortcut
> for \\a.b.c.d\sharename on her desktop.  Over at my parents' house, my
> mother doesn't really grasp the Net 'Hood concept, so I just give her
> a shortcut on the desktop.  Works great.  Also, you don't need the
> 'Hood in order to have printing work.
> 
> Another option is WINS.  Not the cleanest, but it works.  Is the
> server running Samba?  Turn on the WINS support, and point your
> Windoze machines to the Linux box as a WINS server.  The 'Hood should
> work immediately.

Jason:

Thanks!  The server is running Samba but not WINS.  I'll try the 
\\a.b.c.d\sharename - that should work for the printer too AFAIK.

Eric 

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