by default, what protocol is opneSuSE using after install?

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My opneSuSE 10.x, 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4 systems can attach, share etc drives and directories via ssh, sftp and / or fish… I can also, because I’ve installed both samba client and server, because of windows xp system on local home net, access ‘shares’ via samba (smb://)…
I’ve added an ubuntu (gnome), linux-mint (gnome) and fedora (gnome) systems, just to see if I can live without the headaches of the newer KDE look, but it’s not looking like it…

Anyways, they have 3, 2 impossible to find network methods.

  1. ??? who knows what’s invoked in ‘share’ when I right-click on a dir or hdd, choose properties>share.
  2. Apache ‘personal file sharing’ that Only shares ‘public_html’, but you have to know this and install Apache serverlet, so why it’s in the ‘main menu’ is far beyond my understanding of commonsense.
  3. Samba (windows sharing)

*note: all my openSuSE and SuSE ws’ have ext2, 3 and 4 drives and the one (1) Linux-Mint (gnome) system has one ‘Archive’ HDD (non-primary, not system disk) from the last MS Windows system I Had running, so it’s NTFS. just in case this is relevant.

So, the only way I’ve been able to connect a ‘share’ on an ubuntu based system from openSuSE is to First connect using samba, then in ‘Network folder’ on oS, I can then use Go>Network Folder>Add Network Folder (link) and add a connection using ‘recent connections’ (the samba name) and then changing the ‘share’ name, but having to use the netBIOS name for the ‘server’ and it seems to then create an ssh connection…

I can Not connect to any of the ubuntu based systems or shares via ip address like I can between my openSuSE systems, no matter what version (10 to 11.4 and even a LiveCD of 12.1)…

I asked at Linux-Mint and fedora and at linux-mint was told to ‘google nfs’…
Well, thats not it, because NFS is NOT running on any of my oS systems in YaST2>System>System Settings (runlevels (init.d / inittab i think)).

ok, revise… My 11.4 IBM ThinkCentre has NFS running, but it will Not connect to Linux-Mint ‘shares’ either with Network Connection (wizard) using ssh or in ‘location’ box of konqueror (hate dolphin) using the syntax sftp://10.5.0.159 (the ip of linux-mint system) like I can between All the openSuSE and one (1) SuSE systems.

Thank you in advance,
Landis.

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If You want to use ssh which is easiest IMHO check if You’ve got sshd installed and running on ubuntu and mint because it’s not installed by default on ubuntu as far as I can remember. To check if it’s running use netstat -apn command and see if anything is listening on port 22. If that is fine then You most likely have a firewall running on the ssh server and port 22 is blocked by it. You need to let port 22 traffic through the firewall on all ssh servers.

Best regards,
Greg

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> 1. ??? who knows what’s invoked in ‘share’ when I right-click on a dir or hdd, choose properties>share.

This refers to an smb “share”. If Samba is not installed the only option here is to install Samba

> 2. Apache ‘personal file sharing’ that Only shares ‘public_html’, but you have to know this and install Apache serverlet, so why it’s in the
> ‘main menu’ is far beyond my understanding of commonsense.

I think that ‘personal file sharing’ is an Apple and Ubuntu term for WebDAV. It is nothing to do with ~/public_html/. This directory is the default root of a user’s personal web-site, which is accessed via http://hostname/~username/ when the appropriate server (e.g. Apache) is configured appropriately. This feature has been around in Unix, Linux, etc. for ever, and may pre-date Apache.

Interactive networking and file-sharing is best achieved via ssh on any system. In openSuSE if you are not confident with the typing, it can be installed and configured via YaST fo the most part.