If you were using KDE, I would suggest just using Konqueror and the fish:// protocol (which is just a fancy inteface to ssh). To do so you would do something like "fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]" to establish a connection to the remote computer (punch that line into the address bar of Konqueror). You will be prompted for the password, and once authenticated, you will see the file listing of the remote computer as if it were local. You can drag and drop to/from this window to your hearts content. The only real catch (if it IS a catch), is that you are using ssh so everything gets encrypted, which means slightly slower transfer times....
Still with SSH, you can always do command line copies with scp (part of ssh). To do so you would do something like: scp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/share/* /home/share This command says 1) connect to remotecomputer, using myname, 2) copy the contents of /home/share on the remote computer to the /home/share directory on the local computer. It's really just an enhanced copy the above is very similar to "cp /home/share/* /another/directory" - just with the remote connection info. And the remote connection info can be in the source, destination, or both, locations. SSH has the added bonus of working across your network and from remote locations (like china) - as long as the ssh service is running, and you can access the computer in question on the ssh port. Next up, would be to set up a shared file system. As you noted, Samba is one of these, and has the added bonus of allowing windows boxes to also access the shares. Another option is NFS. Both samba and nfs shares can be mounted to a local location on any computer on the network. For instance, I have a folder on my server /home/shared/... where I store misc stuff that should be available on any box I'm on on my network. I've shared this with nfs, and mount it on my workstation at /home/sgrover/shared. This works plenty good enough in my case, but I do need to dig a little more to get write access working properly over nfs (I think I just missed an argument on the mount line in /etc/fstab...). BTW, while NFS takes a little more learning, it is simpler to get up and running than Samba, in my opinion. But, your windows boxes can't (easily) connect to an NFS share. (I actually use both nfs and samba to share the same directory - for this reason). Whatever you choose, there's plenty of documentation out there. Not to mention the experience here on the list. (I just checked the New User section of the CLUG website, but we don't have anything there yet... Jesse, are you reading this?? <grins> ) Hope this helps. Shawn On Wednesday 12 October 2005 22:41, Killer Smurf wrote: > Hello all. I'm sure my questions are a bit simplistic but I'm going to ask > anyway. I'm running Breezy (5.10) with Gnome > on all of these computers. > > 1> I'm looking for a way to interconnect my computers (2 desktops and 1 > laptop) to share files between them. I think I'll use samba even if I have > no win boxes in use. Is this the best way? > > 2> Also with the laptop I would like to be able to connect when I'm not on > my home network (SSH?) or is there something else that would be more > suited? > > 3> If I do use SSH can I set it up to be ReadOnly (CopyOnly) or is SSH > fairly secure and can I use putty from the work computers to access my > system ( The work computers are win.) > > 4> Any good HOWTO's for a beginner would be great. > > You all have been a great help to my wife and I Thank You again > > Frank
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