On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Brian L. Jilek wrote: bj> I've just installed SuSE 6.3 on my laptop(MS free now) bj> and I have no idea how to do file sharing between two bj> linux machines. bj> bj> What do I need to do this? I know with samba I could bj> mount a win drive and copy stuff back and forth. bj> Would someone kindly point me to some information on bj> this. bj> bj> I don't know where to begin. What packages/commands bj> etc. bj> You would use NFS (Network File System) which would allow linux/unix machines to share files with each other. You can do it two ways, with the software version of NFS (see networking section for packages) or kernel version of NFS (requires a compile of kernel) as well as some necessary file contained in a package in the networking section. I would suggest the software version so you can play around and figure out how things work, then when comfortable start plaaying around with the kernel version which takes some time getting it to work correctly. Also do a search of the SuSE database and the rest of the web for NFS and you'll find some additional information that may help you. bj> Thanks. bj> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/