Check out NFS, Network File System, I beilive it was developed by Sun
Mircosystems a while back to interacte with Yellow Pages,commonly know now
as NIS (Network Information Services).
NFS will allow you to mount remote drive, and let remote computer mount your
drives. Not just linux to linux, but unix to and fo linux.
NIS will allow you to set up the same login and envoriment once for multiply
unix machines. If you log on from a computer in Sector 7G it will have all
you files, same login name and password and exact same envoriment you had
when you logged on from Sector 51A. It is easier to adminastor and users love
it, they change it from one Sector and when the login from somewhere else
their changes stay with them. This assumes your home, office or school is
divided up in Sectors.
Samba, which runs off the SMB protrocol will allow you to basically the same
thing as NFS, but with Win32 machines.
There is a couple howto's and FAQ floating around on NFS, but I would recommened
the O'Reilly Book called "NFS and NIS" kinda old (maybe I just have an older
version) and it uses Solaris 2.something as it's example, test subject but
it will provide you with a well rounded education about concepts, setuping up
and maintaining NFS.
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> Is it possible to mount a CD (or any drive) from a remote (Linux)
> filesystem, connected via ethernet? I'm sure it is, it is just like
> mounting a network drive in windows, but I am not sure how it is done.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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