A friend has donated an old Quantex to me, and my wife wants to use
'doze 98 on it. I've told her that I don't do 'doze, and I'm not going
to help her configure it, but she does need Internet access. For
obvious reasons I don't want her using my account from 'doze.

My daughter has an old Pogo that she is not longer using, and I have
SUS 8.2 on it. I figure that I can let here have Internet access from
there, and network my other machines to it. The question is how to go
about it.

I know that I'll need to get a 10/100 NIC for my production machine
and a router, but there are several different ways to set things up,
and I'm not sure which is best. Take it as a given that her machine
will not need[1] access to the Internet via NAT or anything similar. I
will provide a mail server for her on my daughters machine, and let
her relay through that. She can use my daughter's machine for any web
browsing. That leaves the issue of file transfers.

I could let her access my daughter's machine via SAMBA. I could
provide an FTP server. I could tell her to e-mail files between the
machines as attachments. No doubt there are other solutions. So the
question is, which is the best[2] way to handle this, and what are the
gotchas?

Note: I had considered having her use Linux on the same machine, but
I'm not sure that I can trust her to not configure 'doze to access my
account.

[1] Or at least won't get - I'm not about to let her system get
hijacked while using my account.

[2] Well, the best way would be to convince her to use OpenOffice
and forget about running 'doze, but she's adamant about using
m$ orifice.

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