I have three computers on a home network. What is the easiest way (read simple) to enable file sharing among the three computers. They are all running some flavor of Linux.
Hi
I use sftp via nautilus. Add it as a bookmark (I think KDE still uses
fish??) you just need to enable ssh and open the port on the firewall.
Else samba, see here Linux - Swerdna Infotech
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I have found that samba works for me. I have several flavors of linux and windows running on my home network. I would definitely follow the link that malcolmlewis has in his post. Samba can be hard to use with firewall, but swerdna does a good job of explaining it.
Make one of your computers an NFS server. At least under Suse, it is pretty easy to set up.
Make sure everyone (in your local network) has read/write (rw) privileges.
The on your client (as root), create /net/ourfiles
mount 192.168.0.xxx:/exportedDirectory /net/ourfiles
obviously, change the xxx or ip address to the server.
Ken
I would also go for NFS because it is the Unix/Linux way of sharing data on disks. kpdere2968 adivises you to make one of the systems an NFS server. But you can make all of them NFS servers (and all of them clients) if you like so.
This a personal prejudice, not technical expertise, but I vote for samba. Even with lots of help, I could never get NFS to run properly or “stick” after I stumbled into getting it working. The link to swerdna’s page fixed me up in just a few minutes! 
Also, several of my machines dual-boot. So, samba is the obvious choice for me. If you never intend to connect to a windows machine, ever, then maybe NFS will be a better fit for you. The good thing is, you can try both without risk.
I have samba working now. There are some other issues in terms of what is actually sharable. I will start a new thread.
Thanks for your help.