Netgear Toaster Oven SC101 - disappointment

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I reckon this must be fairly common, but in my street I can see a LOT
of wireless n/w;s and most of them are default name NETGEAR and default
password password....or 0 security. So I think that although the range
is good, its perhaps its too omni-directional? I have a Netgear router
and cannot hook up my older laptop, this runs Win98. Any suggestions
as to why this OS does not even see the pc card?

I am annoyed at Netgear, tomorrow I have to return the SC101 storage
central (which is running of my 646) because a) it only works with XP
SP2 and 2K SP4....I need to run Mandriva, Win98 & OSX too. My cousin
bought it - can anyone tell me a better way to share files within a
home network? I think the SC101 is more for set number of PC's all
running XP. They wont even support a Vista driver until mid next year,
and the Indian guy at the call centre couldn't wait to get me off the
phone when I began asking questions on interfacing with this "zetera"
OS the toaster oven runs - "No it is a propr-r-rietary operating
system, you can not. Nobody can, only Vindows, thankyou for calling".


....needless to say I was on hold for 20 minutes for this little pearl
*sigh*

Any help, would be very...helpful.

Regards
dweez
 
Dwiz said:
I reckon this must be fairly common, but in my street I can see a LOT
of wireless n/w;s and most of them are default name NETGEAR and default
password password....or 0 security. So I think that although the range
is good, its perhaps its too omni-directional? I have a Netgear router
and cannot hook up my older laptop, this runs Win98. Any suggestions
as to why this OS does not even see the pc card?
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I think that whilst some of the netgear wireless stuff works with Windows
98, it actually only works with 98 Second Edition. If you've got the first
edition then I don't know if you have any options.
 
Dwiz said:
can anyone tell me a better way to share files within a
home network?
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Put a big hard drive in the Mandriva box and share directories using samba?

Or even easier, put the big hard drive in a windows box and mount the
shares directly to directories on the Linux boxes.

Or, if you want make things seamless, set up Samba as a FREE NT4 PDC!

....kurt
 
Thanks Kurt,
I once shared a fs using samba but have not been using linux for a
while; are talking about using Samba to share b/t Windows machines?
Cheers
Dwiz
 
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