Hi,

I've been working with linux a few weeks now; i set up a nice, small web server, mail server etc...

Now i am stuck: how do i share, move or access files from an other computer (linux)?

What is the standard way of moving, accessing, writing ... files to an other linux box from a linux box? (ssh maybe, if yes, how??)

The topic seems to be too simple, because i hardly found a single page about this online...

Thanks
wwnexc

PS: As i said befor, i am a noob, when it comes to networking linux PCs / server to their "peers".

you should look into samba; it's the open source version of Microsoft's SMB+NMB, so basically you can share files between linux and windows hosts. It's generally the most noob-friendly. Search google for Samba howto's. Samba is best used on a local network, for sharing files windows-style.

For a webserver, samba is probably not the best thing; you're probably going to want to use FTP or SFTP. But, FTP is a pain and is insecure, so you should probably use SFTP.

If you have SSH set up, you can use SFTP as well. As you might be able to guess, using it is quite similar to using a regular FTP client, only it's tunneled through SSH giving you a layer of security. This would be most useful if you need to get files from your linux box from outside of your local network. SFTP is used like this:

$ sftp user@host

there are also GUI clients that are capable of using SFTP, such as gFTP.

hope this was at least somewhat helpful :P Reply back if you need more specific info.

-Brandon

FTP is simple for quickly tranfering some files every now and then.

If you need to share files more intensively (like in editing remote files directly), have a look at NFS. It is like samba, but more standard, more secure and more mature for *nix.

Have fun.

is ther a way to transfer files per shell script between to computers over ssh of sftp? If yes, how would the file transfer commands look? What would be a short sample script?

Thanks for the tips so far!

Write a script that would:

Step 1) mount your NFS/Samba/whatever share
Step 2) Copy required files
Step 3) unmount share

You could then put the script into a CRON job and have it run automatically hourly/daily/weekly

How do i mount a samba share?? ($ mount ......)

I believe what you are looking for is scp, or rcp, because I don't believe you need to encrypt your file over your local network.
Type man rcp for more info. There are examples at the end of the manual pages.

also check out rsync, which is great for moving lots of data back and forth. There is a tutorial on rsync backups in the Tutorials area, so I'm not going to say any more.

Thanks!! You guys rock!!

Now that i have some more search terms, a little bit of "googleing" should do the trick. I think i am going to use samba for other windows computers in the network, and sftp (with certificates) for traffic / maintenance from the internet.