In the last few days, my home computer situation has changed and I want
to do something I've never even thought about before, much less know how
to do.
I became so much more disgusted with windows--and HP too--that I bought
an iMac so that I could maintain my other i-devices. That machine is a
joy to use and I've spent a lot of time learning it.
By the way, although over the years I have very dutifully configured my
kernels to read disks formatted in various and sundry styles, I've never
run into the situation in which I couldn't do anything with a drive
because of how it was formatted. My iMac does not read disks originally
formatted in or for ntfs. It sees the partition table but won't mount
anything. This brings me to my current question.
I want to ultimately use all my external and salvaged hard drives on
both my (soon to be completely) linux laptop and my iMac. That part is
simple. Back up what I don't want to lose and then reformat those drives.
The second part is what I need to learn. I want to be able to transfer
files between my laptop and iMac. Apparently there's a couple of ways
to go. One is to setup an ftp client and server on one of the machines
and do it that way. The other is file sharing. I think I'm leaning
towards file sharing because that ability is obvious on the iMac.
I scanned through the BLFS packages and it wasn't clear to me what I
needed in either case. For file sharing it looks like NFS and its
dependencies. But for ftp it wasn't clear.
What do I need to build to develop either one or both of these abilities?
With NFS, is it a matter of just getting on the network and then having
the other computer recognize and access the machine?
I will be grateful for any advice, directions or comments in these areas.
Dan
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