Fwd: Simplest way of setting a share folder

[Brian McKee]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 02:53:24PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
>> If higher security was required, you would be better off using ssh.
>> Unfortunately that would be a real pain unless you set your router to
>> hand out the same IP address every time you connect.
>
> No need for that, just use <hostname>.local names.  Avahi, which makes
> this work, is preinstalled in recent Ubuntu versions.
>
> I find ssh the easiest way to share files between Linux machines;
> otherwise I use Samba.

Good point!  I haven't mucked about with Avahi and didn't think of that.
Made a note to try that myself sometime....

Brian