Setting up a fileserver and incorporating a wireless laptop (!)
I know that this may seem a bit ambitious but..... I currently run a home network of 2 windows 98 pcs, a SuSE 7.3 machine (mine) all connected quite nicely via a smoothwall box to broadband... For reasons of mobility, I want to purchase a laptop for my (linux) use and rationalise my complete system. My intention is to build a SuSE file server (my old working box) exporting the equivalent of 'My Documents' folders to the two windows machines (I can cope with this) and also serve from this machine a home directory for the new laptop...... My quandary is, is it possible to have a home directory from the fileserver for my laptop but on those instances where the laptop is 'away' from the network, to synchronise with the server.... My questions are: Is this feasible ? How does KDE work on this, would I have to have a fully fledged KDE configuration on both the server home directory and the laptop ? I want to use a wireless connection - practical ? I have SuSE 7.3 and 8.0 - which would be better, I suspect that I shouldn't base my whole configuration on a .0 release, I was thinking of using 7.3 for the fileserver and 8.0 for the laptop ? I'll appreciate any feedback, please don't start a Smoothwall flame, I recognise that some people have issues with Mr Morrell but I don't really want to go down that route....... Many thanks Pete
Pete
Is this feasible ?
Samba SSH
How does KDE work on this, would I have to have a fully fledged KDE configuration on both the server home directory and the laptop ?
Not on a remote login unless you want to lose on your home machine. Use SSH which is easy to use.
I want to use a wireless connection - practical ?
IP Sec !! FreeSwan ... et al.
I have SuSE 7.3 and 8.0 - which would be better, I suspect that I shouldn't base my whole configuration on a .0 release, I was thinking of using 7.3 for the fileserver and 8.0 for the laptop ?
Either. I've done both for companies and both work fine on laptops and Samba servers. What laptop is it ?
I'll appreciate any feedback, please don't start a Smoothwall flame, I recognise that some people have issues with Mr Morrell but I don't really want to go down that route.......
No, I don't want that either. Just that he threatens everyone. Tried BSD as a firewall instead ? Thanks -- Richard www.sheflug.co.uk
On Friday 19 July 2002 17:37, you wrote:
Pete
Is this feasible ?
Samba SSH
Hmmmm I was thinking more like NFS, although I recollect a thread on this very subject -I must check
How does KDE work on this, would I have to have a fully fledged KDE configuration on both the server home directory and the laptop ?
Not on a remote login unless you want to lose on your home machine. Use SSH which is easy to use.
Back to my original thought of an automount onto a NFS share ?
I want to use a wireless connection - practical ?
IP Sec !! FreeSwan ... et al.
I have SuSE 7.3 and 8.0 - which would be better, I suspect that I shouldn't base my whole configuration on a .0 release, I was thinking of using 7.3 for the fileserver and 8.0 for the laptop ?
Either. I've done both for companies and both work fine on laptops and Samba servers. What laptop is it ?
Still in the embryonic stage yet - there is always plenty of discussion along the lines of " which laptop"
I'll appreciate any feedback, please don't start a Smoothwall flame, I recognise that some people have issues with Mr Morrell but I don't really want to go down that route.......
No, I don't want that either. Just that he threatens everyone. Tried BSD as a firewall instead ?
I must admit I haven't - Smoothie's looked after me ok so far, (but I'm open to any constructive comments...)
Thanks
Pete
Pete
Hmmmm I was thinking more like NFS, although I recollect a thread on this very subject -I must check
Umm ... what you ought to do with Linux and Unix in general as Jeremy Allison says ... is that you shouldn't trust your applications or clients. If you want to use Samba over the net the more usual thing is SSL. Which I should have mentioned. NFS is the kind of thing that I might expect a Windoze person to use.
Back to my original thought of an automount onto a NFS share ?
Maybe not.
Still in the embryonic stage yet - there is always plenty of discussion along the lines of " which laptop"
Yes. If you can build one from second hand scrap parts then the IBM ones can be very good. A friend of mine is a Post Office network engineer. He built his IBM/SuSE 8.0 notebook from a pile of scrap in a cupboard at work. Other than that Toshiba or one of the others. Dell and Compaq have some peculiar things under the bonnet so I don't like them so much. Friend of mine at Insight uses Toshiba with SuSE and Mandrake.
I must admit I haven't - Smoothie's looked after me ok so far, (but I'm open to any constructive comments...)
The SuSE firewall is also very nice. Smoothwall, IP Cop, Freesco .. etc .. are all very educational. It's a good idea to try to write your own firewalls eventually. That way you can learn a lot about network security at the same time. Very important when it comes to Unix in general. Thanks -- Richard www.sheflug.co.uk
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Richard Ibbotson wrote: ->Pete -> ->> Hmmmm I was thinking more like NFS, although I recollect a thread ->> on this very subject -I must check -> ->Umm ... what you ought to do with Linux and Unix in general as Jeremy ->Allison says ... is that you shouldn't trust your applications or ->clients. If you want to use Samba over the net the more usual thing ->is SSL. Which I should have mentioned. NFS is the kind of thing ->that I might expect a Windoze person to use. Ummm... excuse me, but what planet are you from? NFS from a Windows person? NFS is perfectly suitable for a LAN application on UNIX platforms. Yes, SSL is more secure, but exactly how are you proposing to use SSL in a file server application? Using FreeSWAN would be fine for protection, but you still need the file sharing protocol. - Herman
Herman
Ummm... excuse me, but what planet are you from? NFS from a Windows person? NFS is perfectly suitable for a LAN application on UNIX platforms. Yes, SSL is more secure, but exactly how are you proposing to use SSL in a file server application? Using FreeSWAN would be fine for protection, but you still need the file sharing protocol.
Yes. I get a lot of people who write to me who go on about using Samba across an internal network. I come back a week later and find them using it over the net. Then they accuse me of not telling them about network security. So, these days I tell them first and let them work it out later. When you write for a lot of computing magazines as I do you have to think about these things. Better safe than sorry :) -- Richard
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