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New to networking, have 2 Mandrake 9.2 machines... want to share files

I've tryed using linneighborhood, but, for the average noob (me) I can't figure out how to get my mp3 and ogg files downstairs up here, really thats all I want to do. Can this be done easier with a differnt app, or am I missing somethin in linNeighborhood to do this?

this may help

http://www.mozillaquest.com/Linux02/..._Story-01.html

i'd reccomend having a look at this

http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html

http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html

as linNeighborhood is a gui frontend for samba. hope that gets you going.
good luck.

Re: New to networking, have 2 Mandrake 9.2 machines... want to share files

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Originally posted by Fear58
I've tryed using linneighborhood, but, for the average noob (me) I can't figure out how to get my mp3 and ogg files downstairs up here, really thats all I want to do. Can this be done easier with a differnt app, or am I missing somethin in linNeighborhood to do this?

you may use NFS for this

on 'server' machine

1. check if nfs-utils rpm package installed:
rpm -qa | grep nfs

2. edit /etc/exports file (or create it)
my file contains:
/home/oracle 192.168.200.7(ro)

first field - directory to share
second - who can mount this share in read-only mode

man 5 exports for details

3. restart nfs daemon:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start

on 'client' machine
mount -t nfs server_name_or_ip_address:/home/oracle /mnt/nfsdir

Any questions ?