Mark Taylor wrote:

Your only hope is to run the WinNT client under wine on the linux box. However, you will have to be able to mount a floppy with a fat file system to transfer the data to your Win98 machine, and allow a WinNT client on the Win98 machine to do the transfers.

I've found a solution that I think good... but maybe you can do better.
I'm running the seti NT client on linux with wine, because I didn't see any difference in the performance with the linux version, and I will pass WU from one sytem to the other using a floppy disk with a fat fs.

Here's how:
1) make a directory on the win system and put the win nt client in it.
2) run the NT version on windows, connect and take a WU, then copy all the data to a floppy (I'm working on how to make this step semi-automatic).
3) move to the linux box, copy the floppy content on HD.
4) Run the seti client with wine using:

wine -- setiathomeblablabla.exe -stop_after_process &

The "--" option it's useful to pass arguments to the seti client.
(This step will be automatic, I want to write some script to run and monitor the client). If want to look at the progress do:

head state.sah | grep prog

5) when terminated (afer a long time, since my linux box is quite old...), copy back the data to the floppy, and move everything to the windows machine.
6) Run the seti NT client on the windows machine, send WU back, and restart from point 1) ! If tired to make my linux box crunch data, I would use the option -stop_after_xfer.

Now I'm working on one or more simple script to automate some step and to monitor my linux box when crunching.
If you're interested, I will post them when finished.
Also, suggestions are welcome!
Regards
    Gerry