network ; basic how to...

[Eric Cope]

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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