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| Thread ID: 39292 | 2003-11-02 00:26:00 | IPCop, Mandrake and Networking | rmcb (164) | Press F1 |
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| 188550 | 2003-11-02 00:26:00 | I have a home network consisting of 1 x p133 running IPCop, this is connected to a network switch, from the switch I have 2 other pc´s, both running Mandrake 9.1. This is working well apart from the fact that I can´t seem to ¨see¨ the 2 Mandrake machines to share files etc. I have been able to share printers however so the network is working. Any ideas on software I may have to install or settings I may have missed?? Thanks |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 188551 | 2003-11-02 02:09:00 | Unless you have appropriate servers running on both machines, there isn't really any concept of "shared" files/directories. You can be on one machine and log into the other (using telnet or SSH). NFS is the traditional *nix way to share directories ... it enables you to mount a directory (or directory tree) on a mount point in a remote machine's file sytstem This can be totally transparent (wiith automounting). This uses the /etc/exports file and need the nfsd daemon running, and some entries made in /etc/fstab. It works nicely once it's set up. I often use it to share a CD drive as well as hard disks. Samba would probably work perfectly well (in a more Microsoft styled mechanism :D). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 188552 | 2003-11-02 03:35:00 | Ok thanks, will check if samba is installed and try again. | rmcb (164) | ||
| 188553 | 2003-11-03 03:10:00 | Samba installed on both machines, what now? How do I browse the other machine??? |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 188554 | 2003-11-03 03:45:00 | Good question . :D I haven't done this, but I think you just setup with the samba . conf file (which may be in /etc or /etc/samba ?) the directories you want to share . Make a mount point on each machine for the other machine's shared directory (ies) (mkdir /other (say) ) . Then you can mount -t smbfs otherbox://directory /other . Or something like that . :D man samba will help . :D Or maybe it's "smbmount" . Someone will know . . . I have found NFS so easy that I've never done it with Samba . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 188555 | 2003-11-03 04:02:00 | What is NFS?? | rmcb (164) | ||
| 188556 | 2003-11-03 04:11:00 | NFS is the Linux native network share file-system. mount -t smbfs will call upon smbmount, and the man pages (Mine did when I last looked) recommend using mount -t smbfs rather than smbmount :-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 188557 | 2003-11-03 04:13:00 | Network File System. Developed by Sun, and became a Unix standard. There'll be a HOWTO in the /usr/share/doc/HOWTO ... tree about it. Hedre's the Samba way: I've found a book. If you have made a ,ount point called "/other"as I said above, and your other machine is called "otherbox" , with a shared directory called "myshare", the mount command would be mount -t smbfs //other/myshare |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 188558 | 2003-11-03 04:20:00 | P . S . -- I hit Post rather than Go Back/Edit ;-) . . . to test the Samba setup on the other machine use "/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -L otherbox " . You might need swat running to use the GUI Samba setup . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 188559 | 2003-11-03 04:43:00 | I would recommend you get the RH9 rpm's for samba 3, as Ive found smbmount works a lot better :-) Also, I'd recommend downloading WebMin, coz it does smbmounts well too :-) |
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