While I have been a programmer for over 25 years (albeit DOS/Windows and microcontrollers) I have little networking experience, other than SMB and I am still pretty much a newbie to TCP/IP and Linux. Maybe I am going senile or just naturally dumb, but having RTFM and gathered as much info as possible from the net, I still cannot figure out how to set up a very simple 2 box network. I already have a well established SuSE 7.3 box, which was networked to a Win98 box via samba. I have now replaced Win98 on the second box with SuSE 8.0 :))) I have left the 7.3 box set at 192.168.0.1 and set the 8.0 box to 192.168.0.2 I can ping in both directions, which is fine, but what I want to do is transfer files between the 2 boxes, preferably by way of GUI drag and drop (eg. Konqueror). At this stage I am not interested in using the 7.3 box as a gateway for the 8.0 box, nor do I want to connect to anything from M$. Could somebody please give me some idea of which aspects of TCP/IP networking I should be concentrating on, or point me toward a real simple (I mean "abc") article about setting up a trifling (for most users) little configuration. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. TIA Dave
NFS (NetWork File System) is what you need.
Linux is a excelent client/server of NFS, and SuSE has all the necessary to
put to work easyly on Yast2.
Regards,
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From: "Dave Barton"
While I have been a programmer for over 25 years (albeit DOS/Windows and microcontrollers) I have little networking experience, other than SMB and I am still pretty much a newbie to TCP/IP and Linux. Maybe I am going senile or just naturally dumb, but having RTFM and gathered as much info as possible from the net, I still cannot figure out how to set up a very simple 2 box network.
I already have a well established SuSE 7.3 box, which was networked to a Win98 box via samba. I have now replaced Win98 on the second box with SuSE 8.0 :))) I have left the 7.3 box set at 192.168.0.1 and set the 8.0 box to 192.168.0.2
I can ping in both directions, which is fine, but what I want to do is transfer files between the 2 boxes, preferably by way of GUI drag and drop (eg. Konqueror). At this stage I am not interested in using the 7.3 box as a gateway for the 8.0 box, nor do I want to connect to anything from M$.
Could somebody please give me some idea of which aspects of TCP/IP networking I should be concentrating on, or point me toward a real simple (I mean "abc") article about setting up a trifling (for most users) little configuration.
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
Dave
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 09:11:15AM +0200, David Marti wrote:
NFS (NetWork File System) is what you need.
Linux is a excelent client/server of NFS, and SuSE has all the necessary to put to work easyly on Yast2.
I agree. NFS is the closest replacement to SMB file sharing in the windows world. To help you over another small bump, there are two implementations of the NFS server daemon on Linux, one is built into the kernel and the other runs as a separate daemon outside the kernel. Most articles recommend using the kernel NFS and that is the only one I've ever used. If you use kernel NFS, this is the only package need (you may already have it installed, and the version is from 8.0): nfs-utils-0.3.3-109 The NFS HOWTO is a must read. It will also tell you about some important performance tweaks that are easy to set up in your /etc/fstab. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Linux soldat -- 8.0 SuSE panzer division Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
On 12 Jun 2002, Dave Barton wrote:
I already have a well established SuSE 7.3 box, which was networked to a Win98 box via samba. I have now replaced Win98 on the second box with SuSE 8.0 :))) I have left the 7.3 box set at 192.168.0.1 and set the 8.0 box to 192.168.0.2
I can ping in both directions, which is fine, but what I want to do is transfer files between the 2 boxes, preferably by way of GUI drag and drop (eg. Konqueror). At this stage I am not interested in using the 7.3 box as a gateway for the 8.0 box, nor do I want to connect to anything
from M$.
Could somebody please give me some idea of which aspects of TCP/IP networking I should be concentrating on, or point me toward a real simple (I mean "abc") article about setting up a trifling (for most users) little configuration.
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
TIA
Dave
NFS is ok. But you should be able to do it by ftp too. Be sure inetd and an ftpd are installed on the server. In the file /etc/inetd.conf you have to uncomment the line: ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.ftpd I think it should work now. Peter
Much as been replied to this already. If both systems are going to be used, I might suggest that you set up your home directory on one system and use NFS to export it to the other, so that when you log in to either system you get the same home directory. You also want to make sure that your userids and groups on the two systems are the same. As, previously mentioned, YaST2 can be used to set up the NFS server and to configure the exports file. (However, the file is an ASCII file, /etc/exports). There is a feature called automount, where exported directories may be automatically mounted when referenced, but that is probably not necessary for you at this point. On 12 Jun 2002 at 15:23, Dave Barton wrote:
While I have been a programmer for over 25 years (albeit DOS/Windows and microcontrollers) I have little networking experience, other than SMB and I am still pretty much a newbie to TCP/IP and Linux. -- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
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