what is the best way to share files between linux and linux, is it samba, nfs or something else?

NFS, it works quite well and allows you to mount a network drive as one of your own.

nfs

Uh, just to re-itterate in case it wasn't clear, NFS

Cool

i am trying to get nfs to work now but i can't seem to, i am trying to start the deamons but i get this error message

[root@localhost bane]# /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Invalid argument

that is after i ran
/sbin/portmap

i tried to do it running the redhat service command but that didn't work either
[root@localhost bane]# service nfs start
Starting NFS services: [ OK ]
Starting NFS quotas: Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to send; errno = Invalid argument
rpc.rquotad: unable to register (RQUOTAPROG, RQUOTAVERS, udp).
[FAILED]

I have redhat 9.0 and my /etc/exports looks like this

/home/ 192.168.1.107(rw)

i am using this tutorial
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/

Just some ideas (since I didn't do the quota thing with my NFS):

1. Maybe you didn't enable quotas in your kernel?
2. Have you check to see if it's running:
rpcinfo -p

What do you get from that command?

Cool

The easiest is ssh and scp.
NFS is a close 2nd.

Some linkage that may help.

Redhat 9.0's Network Configuration
Networking HOWTOs

How do you "easily" use ssh to transfer files from 1 box to the other?

Cool

I would guess you already know this, but ssh would be used to list any and view text files while scp will copy files from one PC to the other. This with just the ssh server running and without configuring /etc/exports or /etc/fstab.
Of course after a sucessful correct configuration of NFS one could view any files at all as if they were on the viewing PC. A defination of easy is called for, I guess.

Thanks for the vote of confidence but I didn't know that. I don't know what scp is. I've been using ssh for a long time, and here's what I do to transfer files (if I am just too lazy to mess with exports on NFS at the moment):
ssh -l username boxname
{enter pass}
cd /path/to/directory/to/save/file/to
ftp masterc (box I am ssh'ing from)
Login name
pass
get filename.tar.gz
exit
And then I have the file on the other box. Pretty damn incovenient, but works So I guess I'll be looking into scp and giving it a try.

Thanks for the info.

Cool

nfs isnt that hard to set up. I was using it for a while, but went back to FTP because I didnt want the NFSD running on my other computer that I use specifically for timing how long algorithms take to run.

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What? Care to expand on that? If it's private or you just don't want to, simply ignore this post. But uh, what kinds of alogrithms are you running that you need to time them?

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Chris, you get this figured out yet?
Can you not post up your rpcinfo -p info?

Cool

I'm a little surprised you had not heard of scp, although it is somewhat obscure.
I heard about it while I was trying to send files to a shell account that did not allow FTP. I had zero luck attempting to use lrzsz and minicom (telnet rather than secure) but heard about scp and have used it often ever since.
If you use ssh, you will like scp.

you learn something about linux every day that you use it

any other interesting things that you know of? hehe