How about a second NIC in the Windows machine, with a cross-over cable to the NIC in the Linux machine? Or PPP over a serial cable? You might have some trouble convincing the Windows machine that you can establish a PPP connection without dialing a phone number; the two services seem pretty tightly bound in the Windows OS.
Marc ---------- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 ---------- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> Onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/20 6:42 AM >>> At 09:27 AM 12/19/99 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have a dilemma at work. They use Windoze (NT at the moment) and will not >allow me to use Linux instead. Yet Linux is my choice both personally and >professionally (given the tools my discipline has which run under the two >environments, Linux is a born winner). I Am allowed to use it as long as it >_cannot_access_ the LAN. So I wondered... Is it possible to network it to my >office NT box without there being any crossover to the outside LAN? Perhaps >this sounds silly, but rebooting is a Bear between systems (I have both on >the one machine at this time). > >(Linux is considered a Maverick system by our newly hired administrator.) Let your boss ask him WHY he doesn't want another OS on the LAN. If he can't come up with a reasenable answer, fire him and get a new one. Regards, Onno -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
