[UFO Chicago] Non-IP file sharing?

[Ben Nell]

Can you dual-home your laptop?  i.e. pcmcia card or something.
Depending on the client, you should be able to bind your VPN to a
specific NIC, right?

On 9/21/07, Christopher D. Heer <cheer at heerfamily.net> wrote:
> Hey there.
>
> I've got an Ubuntu box running as my in-home file/print server (and other
> things, but that's not germane to the current discussion) and it works
> great for that.  Except.
>
> For work I have a laptop running XP.  I can't change that, unfortunately.
> I also have a VPN client (which I cannot change) that kills my IP access
> to the local LAN by forcing XP's routes to all point to the tunnel
> interface, and if I try manually changing the routes, the client drops.
>
> I used to use an XP box as a file server, and all I did was turn on IPX or
> NetBEUI on both the server and laptop, and everything was great.  I'm
> looking for some kind of similar alternative on linux...basically file
> sharing (and, if possible, print sharing, but that's not as important)
> using something other than IP.
>
> I looked into IPX first.  There's IPX support in the kernel, but Samba
> doesn't use it.  I did find an old package (mars_nwe) but couldn't get it
> functional, nor could I track down an example of someone who did get it
> running under a modern distro.
>
> I next looked into Appletalk, and netatalk seems simple enough, but alas,
> Appletalk support is gone from XP, and the few third-party alternatives
> for XP seem to also have vanished -- hardly a surprise.
>
> I've seen mentions of NetBEUI (!) but haven't found anything real specific
> yet.
>
> So I'm looking for some kind of outside-the-box-type solution.  Any ideas?
> --
>   Christopher D. Heer -- cheer at heerfamily.net
>   http://chrisheer.wordpress.com (blog)
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