networking desktop to laptop
Michael Beattie
mtbeedee at gmail.com
Sun May 15 14:18:19 UTC 2005
On 5/15/05, Dr W Hunter Blair <whblai1 at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> This should be easy I know. In spite of using linux for many years I
> still have no clue about file sharing. The desktop only has Ubuntu, the
> laptop a small XP partition, which I do not really need, and an Ubuntu
> partition for work.
>
> Could someone kindly point me to some resources re this, or even better
> tell me how to do it.
>
There are many ways to share files between the 2 machines... NFS,
Samba, FTP/SCP... They each can be used in a slightly different way.
If you let us know more about exactly how you want to share the files,
we can suggest which option might be best suited.
Basically, NFS and Samba will both let you mount a directory on a
remote machine as if it were a local directory. Like in windows if
you "map network drive" if you are familiar with that. (Windows
actually uses the samba protocol)
FTP and SCP can be used to copy files over to the other machine... you
have to actively do it though, it wont appear as a local directory and
there's no persistant connection like there is with samba and nfs.
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