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On 20/09/12 12:18, George Parker wrote: > On 18/09/12 01:45, Jason Witcher wrote: >> > 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 > Thanks for your reply. Much to consider now. To supply some of the info you mentioned, I have a desktop (Mint KDE), my daughter has a laptop (Xubuntu 12.04) and my wife also has a laptop (Mint Xfce). Because the topic of Samba came up at the recent meeting in Holsworthy I have started looking at file sharing. This would only be so that wife or daughter could occasionally look at a folder on the desktop using their own laptop. This would mainly be to see any recent photos so that they could choose which ones to copy over and/or print. I realise that they could sit at the desktop and do this, which is exactly what they do at the moment. But since the topic of sharing file came up ..... Also I am planning to upgrade the desktop soon so it may have a different distro installed. Meanwhile I thought that I could start researching about file sharing, and look where it's got me ... baffled and bewildered as the old song has it. Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq