Anton Aylward composed on 2016-08-16 21:34 (UTC-0400):
Felix Miata wrote:
Anton Aylward composed on 2016-08-16 09:42 (UTC-0400):
Felix Miata wrote:
I'm guessing he's primarily interested in ease of use, which for the most part excludes cmdline utilities.
it depends on what you mean by 'ease of use'.
I mean ordinary minute to minute use, not periodic admin tasks like backup management. I mean things like being able to open a particular spreadsheet or group of form letters with equal ease from either of the two computers, or checking to see what time some doc recently worked with was last saved, something that would be facilitated if there were symlinks from various remote directories living in individual homes, with permissions appropriate for easy sharing.
Well, I was doing that with UNIX machines long before Linux; SCO linux, Xenix, SUNOS, early AIX, early HP/UX. And yes it was command line stuff. And yes there were spreadsheets before Windows or X11.
More than a decade after various computer classes using punch cards, chain printers and dumb terminals, I learned 1-2-3 v1.0 on a 40 or 50 lb."portable" XT clone with green 10" or maybe 11" screen, originally with 256K RAM, upgraded with something like 16 or 32 chips to bring it to its maximum of 512k. I suspect OP may not be quite our age, as probably the majority of other subscribers here. Also I'm not sure this ancient history is really relevant in this thread.
mapped to todays terminology I would have something like this On machine A,B, C though ... have /mnt/NFS/Machines/ with subdirecotries for mount points for all the 'other' machines in the group.
Have /etc/fstab soft mount the exported trees of the other machines there.
An each of the machines A, B, C though .... NFS export what you want to share.
You can make this as flexible as you need since you can also symlink.
Backup a bit. I was speaking on behalf of OP: "Having read much too much literature about the setup of a home network I am comming to a point that I need a simple manual for my needs." What you're saying is more or less what I've been doing for years. OP apparently hasn't been able to locate a grokable explanation of how to achieve such end. Computers are supposed to make impossible things possible, and tough things less tough, right? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org