network ; basic how to...

Fri Mar 25 08:31:58 MST 2011

> For heterogenous unix networks, NFS is a great answer.
Agree...
But that's not Betty's case!   :)
(or most case around mundane Linux geeks anyway)
ET 

 

Dan Lund writes: 

> For heterogenous unix networks, NFS is a great answer.  Though to avoid a hanging system, it's better to use the soft mount feature. 
> 
> -Dan 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone 
> 
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:38 AM, "kitepilot at kitepilot.com" <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote: 
> 
>>> I tried to get NFS to work once, but it wasn't worth the hassle.
>> I've done it.
>> I've suffered it.
>> I've seen the puters hung.
>> I haven't seen the corrupted files.
>> And I won't, cuz I ditched NFS and use sshfs....   :)
>> YMMV.
>> ET 
>> Living on Earth is expensive,
>> but it does include a trip around the Sun every year...  
>> 
>> 
>> Eric Cope writes: 
>>> 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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