NFS - NFS - 2 Gentoo Boxes

CharlieS · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:32 pm Post subject: NFS - NFS - 2 Gentoo Boxes

my box's name is helium.. My roomate is radon... helium is 192.168.0.100 radon is 192.168.0.101

We use SSH to eachother all of the time.. We both use Gnome.. But we would love love love it if there was an easy way to use eachothers files.. like my /home/music and his /home/movies

Is NFS the best way??? i'm assuming so... i read a little bit about it on tldp but it looked very complicated... i would love it if eventually i could just click an icon on my desktop and be on his folder... is that possible???

I'm not a big fan of Samba.. not trying to start a war... also.. we are wondering if we need to encrypt this connection.. it is just me and him behind a router.. so probably not... could somebody please tell me what my best options are...

And maybe a small howto with the information i provided.. like what my /etc/exports or somethign should look like...

jjasghar · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject:

believe it or not NFS is so easy it's almost scary. samba is a little harder but you get the beifit of winshite users being able to get to your drive. to be honest with you i could show what your /etc/exports file should look like but man you wouldn't learn how to do it, it's like a line per directory you want to share, take a little time and you'll be shocked on how easy it is.
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spott · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 76

if you haven't gotten it out, look for the nfs howto on google...

jjasghar is right, nfs is so increadibly easy to set up its almost laughable.

lucky you for having a roomie who uses linux.

spott

CharlieS · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:30 am Post subject:

o ya.. i hooked up him with Gentoo and he loves it.. we have distcc running and it is really fast to compile stuff.. also using Reiser4 on his newly installed system.. it is BADASS