On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 09:23:25 AM Anton Aylward wrote:
On 04/21/2015 02:41 AM, Bonet wrote:
Having 3 desktops on a large desk, I have never found the time to get them connected.
I presume you mean 3 computers as opposed to desktops in the sense of a virtual desktop. I have six running under KDE4 on this workstation.
But you go on to say they _are_ connected by your 'router' (I hope you mean 'switch or 'hub')
:) Think it is a switch or hub.
Transferring files etc. from one to the other I use an USB stick and can live with it. Would like though to be able to connect them to exchange bigger data direct. Two of the computers are running SUSE running KDE and one (still) runs Windows XP. The computers are connected via my router.
The possibilities are many.
Personally I hate copying files except to do backups or transmissions. Its too easy to have copies out of sync., updates differently on both machines.[1]
I don't have desktops, but I have a number of portable devices. I do photography, not just with the camera but also with the phone, and the fondleslabs are used for reading and writing and bits of email. http://www.yourdictionary.com/fondleslab
What I *DO* do is share file systems.
I run FTP and SAMBA on my desktop so "obviously" that file system is mountable to the other devices using appropriate apps from the App store. Of course running just a computer mounting a remote file system, either SAM<BA, FTP using FUSE (or even a SSHFS)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPFS http://www.linuxnix.com/2011/03/mount-ftp-server-linux.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS http://linux.die.net/man/1/sshfs https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-r emote-file-systems-over-ssh
In a mixed Linux-Windows environment, the simplest is SAMBA. You can publish various file trees from UNIX a letter drives visible to the Windows system and the Windows machine can "share" folders that can be mounted on either or both Linux machines.
Yes I have set this up in the past both for myself and for others. it is easy and straight forward, less complex than using SSHFS and by making sure that there is only one copy of a file that can be accessed from anywhere you never have to think "what copy am I working with?" or worry about copying back when you've altered a version on one machine.
Having things viewable as a file tree/folder is more visually appealing, more context, than simply copying files back and forth, and lot less confusing, I've found.
In many ways, for a personal set-up, this is easier than using a SAN.
KISS.[2]
[1] yes there are tools to do differential merges of copies that have diverged, but that gets increasingly complicated. BTDT don't want to go back unless its an issue of a team in a commercial setting. [2] http://michellgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/kiss-MCG.jpg
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