[SWLUG] Mandriva and Networking (perhaps not with Samba)

[Paul G. Richardson]

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Linux <----> Linux shares do not need to use samba (although you can).
You can set up shares using NFS (quick google brought up this ->
http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?p=358404&sid=4299b48d3bace3ad6fdb77effd11e61c
which might give you some idea where to start) or you can use sshfs
which sets up encrypted remote filesystems
(http://fuse.sourceforge.net/sshfs.html) which are more secure than NFS.

Try setting up an ssh (if not already) connection between the 2
machines. If you can establish that connection then sshfs is fairly
trivial to set up thereafter.

Mind save you some hassle.

Regards

PGR

Stephen wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I now have Mandriva 2007 on the PC - duel booting with XP and Mandriva 
> 2006 on the laptop (not duel boot).
> 
> When the Dell has Mandriva booted I do not know what I have to do to see 
> each others file systems.  Normally I use SAMBA, which is present on 
> both to see Windows <---> Linux.  But this is Linux <----> Linux.
> 
> I used Konqueror to look in Services > LAN browser but there was nothing 
> there.  Not on either machine.
> 
> When I started SAMBA, the Dell could see the IP of the laptop but the 
> laptop cold not see the IP of the Dell.  Both could see the networked 
> (ethernet) printer.  When I used SAMBA on the Dell to try and mount what 
> I think was the laptop I got a message that the share could not be 
> mounted.  (4379: tree connect failed: ERRDOS -ERRnosuchshare (You 
> specified an invalid share name)). It was then that I realised I did not 
> understand what "Shares" are.
> 
> I turned the firewall off both off as well.
> 
> Any advice appreciated
> 
> Stephen
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