network ; basic how to...

[Bryan O'Neal]

If we new what distro you were using we could provide step by step instructions.

BTW - I find samba an easy and well performing system. Then again - I
have two windows boxes in my house, so I am sorta stuck with it.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to get NFS to work once, but it wasn't worth the hassle. I recall
> reading about issues when the mounts would hang and file corruption, but I
> don't recall exactly...
> Eric
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:27 PM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com
> <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would stay away from NFS too.
>> Complicated, it's sometimes impossible to kill and requires root
>> privileges.
>> sshfs will do everything that NFS does in userspace without root getting
>> involved.
>> ET
>>
>>
>> keith smith writes:
>>>
>>> Samba is not native to Linux.  It is for sharing files on Linux in a file
>>> server fashion with windows.
>>> For two Linux boxes you might want to look at NFS or Network File System.
>>> This might get you started : http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/
>>>
>>> ------------------------
>>> Keith Smith
>>>
>>> 2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International) : if my people, who are called by
>>> my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from
>>> their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their
>>> sin and will heal their land.
>>> --- On Tue, 3/22/11, S Kreimeyer <skreimey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> From: S Kreimeyer <skreimey at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: network ; basic how to...
>>> To: nicepenguin at webcanine.com, "Main PLUG discussion list"
>>> <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>> Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:31 PM
>>>
>>>
>>>    Betty,
>>>
>>> I'm not familiar with Samba, but I know you can accomplish the same thing
>>> through SSH. There is a pretty good tutorial for that here,
>>> http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/share-files-between-2-ubuntu-computers/
>>> The steps are pretty straight forward, and SSH is included in most modern
>>> linux distributions. The only thing I don't think it mentions explicitly is
>>> how to determine your IP. This is most easily done through the terminal.
>>>
>>> $ ifconfig
>>>
>>> your output will look something like this
>>>
>>> --snip--
>>>
>>> wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 1c:4b:d6:ba:86:dd
>>>                   inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255
>>> Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>                   inet6 addr: fe80::1e4b:d6ff:feba:86dd/64 Scope:Link
>>> --snip--
>>>
>>> The text I bolded is what you're looking for. The numbers may even be the
>>> same. If you are using a wired connection then you will likely need the IP
>>> from "eth0"
>>>
>>> If anything in that guide doesn't work, you should be able to do
>>> everything from the terminal. More info on that can be found here
>>> http://support.suso.com/supki/SSH_Tutorial_for_Linux or from the man pages
>>> for SSH in the terminal ( $ man ssh ). Hope that helps.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Sam
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 15:43 -0700, betty wrote:
>>> i have two linux computers called 'stormy' and 'stormy too'. i want to be
>>> in one of my offices in the house and access files or send files to another
>>> office in my house. ie, send from 'stormy' to 'stormy too' .
>>>  they are both on a wired connection to my cox service.
>>> i have installed 'samba'. (but i don't know where it is on the gui)
>>> i think i have to enable file sharing through the
>>> 'admin>preferences>personal file sharing, but when i  go to that the screen
>>> says "this feature cannot be enabled because the required packages are not
>>> installed on your system" . well that is all fine and good, but it does not
>>> tell me what the required packages are.
>>> this is frustrating.
>>> is this something that is over my head?
>>> as usual thank you for your magnificent and useful help; please keep
>>> basic as possible.
>>> maybe there is an easy tutorial i can follow?, i looked but as expected,
>>> there is a plethora of sites....
>>>
>>>
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