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

A way around the permissions issue is to simply use the "sticky bit"
file attribute.

So files appear like this:

-rwxrws---    1 bigme peachfanclub    20480 Dec  6 14:01 POLICIES.doc

It applies a umask that allows for MSW share file group access.

RF.



On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:32, Graham Brown wrote:
> 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 permissio 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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