Hi!

After working with SuSE for half a year, I now decided to switch to Debian (sarge, so far). I am now trying out Debian on my pc and I still have SuSE installed on my notebook, until I am more familiar with Debian. The only experience with networking that I have, are related to connecting a linux computer to a windows pc via samba.

Now, I want to connect my pc with my notebook, while both machines are running with linux (as mentioned above). I have a small home network set up with a router that is continually online. All computers are not running 24/7, but log on frequently.
So how can connect pc and notebook, so that I can share files between them (right now, I don't even know how to see the other machine in the network).

Thank you for any answers,

ruh31

You can run samba on both machines, and use it as you did before with the linux <-> windows network.

But a nicer option might be to use NFS.
Whit NFS you can export (parts of) your filesystem, and also limit access to specified machines/IP's

I don't have any linux-computers by hand now, so I can't really help whit config-files right now.

But you should look at the manpage for nfsd (the nfs server), and man exports (the config-file for the NFS-server, /etc/exports)

Do you maybe know any tutorials for nfs? Without any knowledge about it, it is not too easy to set up.
Thanks for the idea with samba, I will try that out, too.

just open google type NFS there is quite a lot of how 2s
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/

Hi!

I am also new to linux. How did you manage to connect the two machines( One liux and another windows) I have Debian on one and Windows 98 on another. I have 8 pin ports on both the compuuters and I also have a connecting chord. What should I activate in Windows and what are the IP addresses, DNS server names and the like that I should use. I think some of the above can be arbitrary. Is it not so?

Bye!