NFS is easy to implement and completely transparent. Probably not your best bet for remote access, though I wouldn't be surprised if someone knew how to tunnel NFS through VPN or SSH.
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 10:41 pm, 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 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

