network ; basic how to...

[Dan Lund]

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

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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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