Hi
I have a main computer with opensuse 12.3 connected through a wire to the router and two mint pc wireless connected to the same router. How I can do to each pc “see” the others to share folders and files?
(sorry for my English)
As long as these are all linux machines, then I suggest using NFS (Network File Sharing).
In my case, I have one of the systems acting as an NFS server, with other system able to mount the network files. I use automounter for mounting, as that avoids getting into the problem where you can’t boot machine B unless machine A is up and running.
You may need to install some NFS server stuff. The needed client NFS software is part of a normal install.
NFS is a great way to go for a permanent solution. (If you go that route you can get super fancy and set up the NFS export so that it is available via avahi.)
If you just need to quickly access a file on another machine, browse a directory, etc. you can use KDE’s built in fish:// protocol.
In dolphin:
ctrl-l to display the path entry box
fish://user@targetComputerIPAddress/home/user/
This is particularly handy as you could then open up the remote file using your local programs (Libre Office, Amarok, Kate, etc.) and when you save, you will save onto the remote file system.
In fact, you need not even use Dolphin to first open the location - you an use fish:// directly inside most KDE applications as it is a KDE kio-slave.
I use ssh
also I use fish in dolphin etc…
If you setup ssh you can also start X applications on the remote server
ssh -X
Thanks for te reply, I’ve installed the NFS server in the main opensuse pc, then in yast I’ve tried to config the server but I can’t figure out the values. The opensuse help didn’t helped in this topic. Are there some tutorials about nfs configuration?
On 07/24/2013 12:56 PM, camoltoni wrote:
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> Thanks for te reply, I’ve installed the NFS server in the main opensuse
> pc, then in yast I’ve tried to config the server but I can’t figure
> out the values. The opensuse help didn’t helped in this topic. Are there
> some tutorials about nfs configuration?
I don’t know about tutorials, but server configuration with YaST is quite simple.
Note: I am working across the network to my server and I’m using the ncurses
frontend to YaST; however, the material should be the same.
On the first screen, select that the NFS server be started. You should also
choose to open the NFS hole in the firewall. As there have been instances where
certain versions of NFSv4 failed to work, I choose not to enable it.
Under “Add Directory”, select the directory to be exported. This can be any
directory anywhere in the file system. Clients will have access to any file or
directory in the tree that starts there. They will not be able to see anything
below that directory. For example if you export “/home/user/temp”, a client will
be not be able to see “/home/user”. On the next screen, add the hosts and
options. The “Host Wild Card” should include all hosts that you want to have
access to this NFS share. If you want only hosts on your network to access it,
then you should use something like 192.168.1.*. Change the first 3 numbers to
match your local net. The options that can be used on the next line are
described in ‘man nfs’. You should use the standard options, but change ro to rw
if you want the client to be able to write to the files.