Re: beijing linux newbie likes to set up small office network

Martin,

NFS is generally regarded as insecure when on the net, but between two PC's 
it is probably secure enough.  It does deal well with linux file 
permissions etc, but this may not be what you want.

Depending on how permissions are set, files created by user A on computer A 
will not be accessible by user B on computer A.  Similarly with Computer 
B.  If you envisage files created by anybody being read by anybody (the 
usual MSW setup ;-)) it might be easiest to use Samba.

  Back to NFS

You have to share on each computer and you have to mount the shares on each 
PC.  The need to be remounted each time that you start and that means 
entries in fstab, etc.  I am not familiar with Suse, but I presume that it 
works in generally the same way.

I suggest that you concentrate on getting a share up on one PC and then set 
the other up so that it can "see" that share.  Then make sure that set 
permissions are set to allow read, write etc.  Work through it step by step 
and once you have that going work through the process on the other computer.

User numbers and names are important, as I recall.

I might have a Howto somewhere - let me know of you would like it and I 
will dig it out.

At 11:43 PM 21/03/2004 +0800, you wrote:
>Have you tried SAMBA instead of NFS?
>
>It is a little easier to use and FAR MORE secure and less easy to cause
>hassles from incorrect configurations!  ;-)
>
>RF.
>
>
>
>On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:26, Martin Kuehl wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > Michael Iannini has introduced me to the beijinglug. I am a newbie and 
> have
> > just installed Suse Linux 9.0 prof on two of my computers. Luckily without
> > any problems. Now I like to share some files/directorys on both computers
> > (Linux share, not with win directories). What is the easiest way to do 
> this?
> > Can anybody help? I tried to set up NFS with Suses setup application YAST.
> > Confusing results. All I need is to have is bidirectional access to some
> > folders.  Network cards are installed propelly. Computers can ping  each
> > other. Any ideas? Would be happy about any comments or hints on useful 
> links.
> > Cheers Martin
> >
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