SSH and OOo

[Kelly L. Fulks]

Stew Schneider wrote:
> Kelly L. Fulks wrote:
>> First if you are doing Linux to Linux, I would use NFS instead of Samba
>> to do the networking.  
> I've had a little time to play with it, and here's what I found:
> 
> 1. I'm networking Linux to Linux, using an ssh connection, rather than Samba
> 2. I can drag an OpenOffice document to my desktop from the remote 
> machine and open it
> 3. I can open a non-OpenOffice document in gedit just by clicking on it
> 4. If I click on an OpenOffice document, I get a dialog asking for my 
> password on the IP of the remote machine. That password is the same as 
> the password/username on the local machine. The dialog refuses to accept 
> the password, and returns, this time without the username noted.
> 5. Clicking cancel gets me a "General Internet Error" dialog from 
> OpenOffice.
>> If you want everything to happen automatically
>> there are a few technologies that you might want to look into.  First
>> look into NIS for your passwords (NIS is a kind of domain authentication
>> for Unix and has been around for a couple of decades now, it used to be
>> called YP or YellowPages).  The file server could also be your NIS
>> server and then your passwords would stay the same between the two
>> machines.  NFS for your sharing of drive space is easy to setup when the
>> username/userid's match between the two machines.  Then you could look
>> at autofs on the "client" machine so that the drive space would mount
>> on-demand and unmount when not needed.
>>   
> Since neither machine "travels" (both are Desktops) I'd just as soon 
> have a mount point in fstab, but for the life of me I can't get that 
> going. Do you have a link to a good tutorial?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> stew
> 
> 

I have been using NFS for over 15 years, so I haven't looked at any
tutorials in a while.  However, a quick google search turned up this one
that seems to cover the topic pretty well

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/network_administration_guides/NFS_tutorial/index.html

Basically you have to install the nfs server on the file server.  Then
you have to export the directory structure that you want to remotely
mount.  Once that is completed, you should be able to put an entry into
the fstab that will mount the file system on the client machine.

The only way that I could get OOo (version 2.2 on Fiesty) to open a
document using SSH was to enter the fish:// URL into the "file->open"
dialog.  However, I was then presented a message that stated that the
fish protocol was only partially supported and that a local copy would
be made and I could not save the file over the fish URL either.

However, NFS works flawlessly.  My home directory is on a file server
that is shared between all the Linux systems here (home network).  I
hope  that this helps.

-- 
Kelly L. Fulks
Home Account
near Huntsville, AL