A Question on networking

[Henry Hartley]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 4:51 PM j Mak said:
>> 
>> I am new to this networking thing. After going through tons of
>> tutorials, I managed to connect my two computers (Ubuntu and
>> mepis) with a crossover cable and make them communicate with
>> one other. Now, my problem is how to share files and printer
>> between the boxes. I searched the Internet but found no descent
>> tutorial on this. If anyone has any hints how to go about doing
>> this or know some tutorial on file-sharing please let me know. 
>> 

I don't know anything about mepis but my guess would be that you
want to use NFS (Network File System).

On the Ubuntu Wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SettingUpNFSHowTo?highlight=%28NFS%29
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NFSServerHowTo?highlight=%28NFS%29
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NFSClientHowTo?highlight=%28NFS%29

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Henry