Please Help : Set up ability to share drives on my internal "network"

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Hello,

I have an opensuse machine with multiple drives, I wish to share these drives internally (and only internally) on my “network”.

I would like to share them with a machine running mint. Conversely I would also like to see the drives on the mint machine when its online. I do not want my machine to not boot because of missing drives, so I would like to be able to have them remembered, but not mounted until I click them.

Can someone point me to a basic tutorial or give me a synopsis of what I need to do ?

I would like the network shares to be easy names to remember - right now my local host name is “Kilbert@2616-9410-8fa1-5211-7531-849b-2c94-acce” and I cannot remember it ever.
thanks
JOHn

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Then change it! You are the system manager.

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It seems you want something like NFS.

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Hcvv, I looked in yast, under hostnames, and not see it. The ones I saw where system hosts, and got a warning if I really wanted to change it. Being unsure of which one to even change, I aborted.

When I tried to look under networks, it said that is controlled by network manager, but no link to network manager. A search in the start menu yeilded no finds for network manager. So I am kind of lost.

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Yes! Hui thanks. I am going to read that. I did not know where to even begin.

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YaST2 → Network → Hostname/DNS

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I am looking, But all i see are IP addresses

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thansk
JOhn

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Sorry, i made the last posting out of my memory. This is how you reach the Hostname setting via YaST:

YaST2 -> System -> Network Settings -> "Acknowledge the Warning" -> Hostname/DNS

If you want to use the terminal to change the hostname, hostnamectl is your friend:

# hostnamectl set-hostname yourhostnamehere
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Thansk, That did it, I was scared of doing damage because of the warning.
It worked, but it was a tense moment when it just closed the window with no warning.
I checked in terminal and I now have a new easy to remember hostname. thanks

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And when reading about NFS, please try to do that with a Unix/Linux mind. In Unix/Linux talking about “sharing drives” is not what the concept is. You have in Unix/Linux one directory tree (and Linux tries to hide physical devices with that concept). And for access by other systems, you can export part of that tree. I repeat, what you export has no connection with physical mass-storage devices (even if you call them “drives”).

And on the other system(s), you can then mount those exports in the tree of that system. In the same way you mount other file systems to build up the directory tree.

For some with an MS-DOS background this is not easy to understand.

Another concept that you must master when using NFS (and not only NFS, but whenever you use and manage a Unix/Linux file system) is that of ownership of files by users and group and the access permissions based on that. Those will be valid also for your NFS mount. And thus a common administration of users and groups over all the systems involved is a must.

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