Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3901 mails)

["C. Richard Matson" <goldfarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue January 4 2005 5:00 am, James Knott wrote:
> C. Richard Matson wrote:
> > On Mon January 3 2005 6:15 pm, elefino wrote:
> >>On Monday 03 January 2005 17:47, James Knott wrote:

> > I have two computers setup on SuSE 9.2, using NFS to transfer files
> > between them. The desktop is the NFS server and my laptop is the client.
> > The laptop is a dual boot with XP. The laptop has a fat partition that I
> > use to transfer files between Windows and Linux. If the desktop is
> > running I can boot, reboot and shutdown with out problems. If I want to
> > move files from XP to my desktop I need to use XP to move them to the fat
> > partition and then boot into linux on the laptop and then move them to
> > the server. Kind of a pain, but I rarely do it, so it's not a problem for
> > me. Rich
>
> One thing you may want to do, is move your "My Documents" folder, to
> that FAT partition.  It'll save you a step.  Also, if you're running XP
> Pro, you can get the Unix services package from MS, which included NFS.

Thanks James. That sounds like an improvement for my setup. Happy New Year. 
Rich

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Rich Matson
Reno, Nv. USA