On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:28:10PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Now I have a tower and a laptop at home, and to share files it would be much > easier to share a filesystem. Depends how many files you need to share: I tend to shove stuff round the network via scp. I like the fact that it does binary transfers and checksums the transfer and is secure - but that's probably not effective for 1000 files :) > > I've never used NFS, but everything I read says it's highly insecure. OTOH, > my network sits behind a Belkin router with only my own systems as nodes. > You need to run portmapper and potentially pidentd or similar. This obviously opens ports. Traffic across the network is in clear. If your internal network is relatively secure - no problem. apt-get install nfs-kernel-server on one and nfs-client on the other machine. Configure one line in your /etc/fstab on the client side: add one line into /etc/exports on the server side then type exportfs -a /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop : /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start ; mount the drive to test - and you're done :) Watch out for network glitches: I have a drive NFS mounted at work where a 10M card is trying to talk to a 100M card and throwing errors - not fun. > The other obvious choice would be Samba, which would have advantages since I > sometimes boot my laptop into Windows XP. I also hear it's more secure than > NFS (?) but much harder to set up. No experience here > > For all I know there are other filesystem-sharing methods I'm not familiar > with at all. sshfs has been suggested as one solution: I'm not familiar with it. > Hope this helps, get back to me if you want more details,
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