networking notebook to desktop file sharing
 

Okay, here we go. I have a toshiba laptop with a dual boot of xp and suse9.2, and a home made desktop running suse 9.1 with 3 hard drives. the desktop is connected to a belkin wireless router which is not connected to the internet. the notebook is connected to my inlaws linksys router downstairs which is why i can't connect the desktop to the internet. i've tried a wireless bridge and it doesn't work, and they won't allow me to do anything to their router (their really nice folks, just very independent).

so i want to share files with my desktop from my laptop. it doesn't need to be wireless, i can disable that and just use a cat5 connection from the laptop to the router. i don't want the laptop to be a network server persay. i would rather have it as a client and have the desktop be the "server" independent from the internet. (i'm making this difficult aren't i?)

My desktop has a hard drive mounted at /home and one mounted at /MyMusic. can anyone help me? feel free to give alternate setup options from what i've stated OTHER THAN MY INLAWS ROUTER. hahahahhah.

If you want them to be completely seperate then just connect them via a cat5 crossover cable.

okay, i'm sorry. i'm stupid. i can't understand any of this stuff. i've been reading user guides, admin guides, CCNA books, web sites, etc. and i'm not getting it. all that i think i understand is that in order to connect the two i have set up a DNS on one.

Let's start with the first step:
1. How do i configure my laptop to provide the internet to my desktop?
laptop connects to the internet via Atheros G wifi, to a linksys router.
laptop connects to desktop via Toshiba America ethernet card.
(please forgive me, for seeming impatient. I need specifics, like "open file.conf in kwrite and add 192.168.2.1 on ....." I don't understand what to do at all.)

2. (This seems like it would be easy after the connection is configured) How do I configure the NFS to allow my laptop to access /MyMusic and /home on the desktop and to allow my desktop to access /home on my laptop?

once again, please don't take offense at my stupidity.

1) See this LA:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=23

2) Look at this howto:
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/

i assume nix* means UNIX or Linux, (ie. konsole, terminal, etc)?

and how do i find out the ip address of my ethernet cards on the laptop and desktop?

Yes it does.

To find your IPs:
Linux: ifconfig
Windows: ipconfig