You need cross connected cable to connect 2 pc via lan card . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable
After connecting 2 pc via that cable you just put ip address of same class . Then you can communicate between 2 pcs On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com>wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >>> I just bought the Acer One netbook, on which Lenny seems to work fine. > >>> What I need now is: > >>> > >>> 1) connect it to my old Hyundai laptop so to share data between the > two; > >>> > >>> 2) periodically save, e.g. to the Hyundai the changes I made in my home > >>> directory in the Acer and viceversa. I wish that only the files that > >>> really changed were copied, so to save useless time. > >>> > >>> Can anybody provide suggestions about both issues? I've never > connected > >>> two machines together. > > > Thanks to all who replied! > > It seems that Samba and rsync are the two best way to do what I want. I > regularly use rsync to do my daily backups, but: > > 1) how do I connect the two machines? Any special cable, and where to put > it? > > 2) it seems to me that rsync processes *all* the files and not only the > ones > that really have changed, which would take long with my 2G home dir. > Maybe > some special option of rsync? > > Thanks again > Rodolfo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Registered Ubuntu User # 28654
