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I have a challenge which needs to be solved: I have 2 desktop systems both running Lubuntu 12.04.
PC-1 is mainly used as my main desktop system.
PC-2 is connected to my flatscreen tv for playing movies. Connected to this system is a 1.5 Terabyte external HDD disc which needs to be accessible from PC-1 (green line)
Both systems are connected to the router (red line).
How do I get network access from PC-1 to PC-2 and get access to my ext. HDD disc through the network? It is merely for data transfer (movies/music).
Anybody here who can give me an easy step-by-step explanation on how to fix this?
I guess it depends on what his intentions are. If he just wants to transfer data from the external drive to PC1, sftp would work fine. I was under the impression he he wanted to share the data on the disk between two Linux systems. NFS would allow him to mount the external drive on PC2, and then share that mount via NFS with PC1. In the end, both machines will have direct access to the data on the external drive as if it were local. They could auto-mount the drive on boot, browse the contents graphically or on the command line, and play the media files directly without having to copy them from PC2 to PC1 first. The fact that the data actually lived on an external drive connected to PC2 would be transparent to its use on either machine.
Last edited by suicidaleggroll; 10-11-2012 at 11:52 AM.
well for a home network you can do all the same things with a service that already exists, unlike having to go through the hassle of learning about NFS. fuse will allow a fixed mount of sftp if that's what they want.
well for a home network you can do all the same things with a service that already exists, unlike having to go through the hassle of learning about NFS. fuse will allow a fixed mount of sftp if that's what they want.
He'd still have to learn how to use fuse. The overhead of nfs is also significantly less, leading to faster throughput and less processor overhead. Since he has movies on this remote system, the differences could become significant.
Last edited by suicidaleggroll; 10-11-2012 at 01:43 PM.
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