Just a note to tie off this thread.. Jim Cheetham wrote:
Rule 1 - Neither NFS nor Samba should be exposed to the Internet ;-)
A convenient moment arrived to start up the homenet, without firestarter firewall or Net connection running. Got the SMB shares functional & negotiated permissions sufficient to copy new Ubuntu-Debian packages across into client /var/cache/apt/archives
Samba off, online, Package Manager kicks in with its extended list of upgrades waiting. Say yes to the Upgrades Available, & in they go. One "Package Broken" to fix along the way (by Synaptic) - probably due to a fumble while using MC for the on-client folder transfers - no problem.
Would rather use ADSL & put the process into background / not muck about with it. But this has proven a viable means of getting large updates into place while getting around dialup slowness: use Ubuntu on laptop (as well as desktop), as a mobile downloader for both systems - hook it in where you can get fastest access. E.g. St Albans CLUG meetings? ..Permission pending, of course.
Thanks to all respondents Cheers, Rik -- Richard Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz>, on: Ubuntu GNU/Linux 5.04 free OS, 2.6.10-5-k7 kernel, GNOME 2.10.0 desktop OpenOffice.org 1.1.3, Mozilla 1.7.6 email client & web browser + Firefox GIMP 2.2.2 graphics, gedit 2.10.2 web editor, gFTP 2.0.18 file transfer
