[plug] linux 2 linux networking?

[Bernd Felsche]

Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> writes:
>On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:16 +0800, Ranz wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:00 +0800, John Knight wrote:

>> > >When you say network 'linux 2 linux' what specific networking
>> > >functionality are you after?

>> > basic peer to peer on a local lan, swapping files, ala network neighbourhood

>> > >What distro are you using?  It can make a difference to how things are
>> > >done.
>> > libranet 3.0

>> I dunno about you guys - but there is literally a myriad of options for
>> networking two linux boxes together - here's a few ideas:

>> NFS
>> SAMBA
>> NCP
>> NSS
>> iSCSI
>> SSH SCP SFTP - via Gnome-VFS

UUCP
Kermit
tip

>> i don't think it would matter what distro - so long as they both had the
>> appropriate drivers.

>Probably the easiest to set up would be an NFS connection - you "export"
>a directory from the host, and mount it on the client. Do a "man
>exports" for options on the /etc/exports file entries, and use "mount"
>to mount from the client (can be done from /etc/fstab, but beware of
>timeouts and such).

You only need to plug in cable (and NIC if you don't have one),
configure up some nice 192.168.* static IP addresses and Robert's
your parent's brother.

Well the easiest may then be to use an sftp: file browser such as
konquerer :-)
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