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On 20/09/12 12:18, George Parker wrote: > On 18/09/12 01:45, Jason Witcher wrote: >> On 17 September 2012 18:22, Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> <mailto:barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: >> >> I have been searching the web some more and it is obvious that >> Samba is >> not what I need. So I have been looking at NFS, but it all seems over >> complicated to me. Perhaps someone on the list could point to a >> simple >> set up or perhaps I am asking too much. >> >> I expected to find a simple way to set up a system whereby my >> daughter >> could link to my computer from her laptop via the router connection >> which we have already and then just look at the files in a particular >> folder on my hard drive. Well, what do I know? >> >> In my example I referred to some photos I had taken. They are on my >> desktop because I can prepare them for her using the Gimp. She is not >> interested in doing that for herself, so the images might as well >> be on >> my hard drive from the start. It is obviously going to be simpler for >> her to sit at the desktop and view the photos there. >> >> When we had the chat about Samba I did not realise what was >> involved. I >> should have known better. Sorry to have wasted people's time, >> >> Neil >> >> > I agree with Jason, certainly not a waste of time. You can't know > enough about sharing in my opinion. > > The first thing to do is to decide exactly what it is you need to > share. Is it just within the house? Is it just a couple of machines > occasionally? Is it a lot of machines? Is it a complete share of > /home or just a few files in a /Share directory? Do you need any files > synchronised? Do you share with Windows? Etc., etc.,... > > I have at least 3 machines to share within the house and they all run > Debian based distros. I need to share the /home directories. I don't > share Windows. I need to synchronise apps such as Gramps and Tellico > as I work on them from different computers. > > I set each computer on the router so that it boots onto the house > network with a fixed internal I/P address. > > I set up NFS on every computer pretty much as Gordon described. The > only problems I've had with NFS is when I had some disks formatted > ext3 and some as ext4. I now format all as ext4 and have no problems. > > I have one computer as a sort of server as it is on all day and I have > that mounted automatically at boot on the other machines. It appears > on the desktop as "home_computer name" with the mounted disk symbol. I > mount the others as required on the "server" under their own names. > > I use Unison to synchronise data as and when required. > > This works for me. I have to find a reasonable way to share photos > with my 4 kids and other family who are scattered around the country > but that is another story. I am ashamed to say I have never used SSH > in the 10 years I have been playing with Linux (which I still > pronounce Lie-nux). And I only back up now and again to DVD. An I > haven't any encryption installed. (Hangs head.) > > But, hey, life's great ain't it? > > George > > > > > Maybe there is a flow chat somewhere, that can help determine for others the best way forward so each box has yes or now and eventually ends with use nfs, use file server + nfs, use samba, depending on the route and questions asked and the answers to those. I know this won't provide a one stop answer but it can help people think about their set up and help them determine possible solutions. Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 http://www.raspberrypi.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq