* Jon Jermey <[email protected]> [2011-09-21 14:12:21 +1000]: > The only help I can find with Google is horrendously complicated. > Can anyone provide a simple solution or point me to a > straightforward set of instructions?
Jon, for simple sharing you could try using ssh sharing instead of smb. 1. check you can ssh between the machines. If not, do this on both machines: sudo apt-get install openssh-server sudo service ssh restart (you may want to later setup ssh keys and tighten security by only allowing key-based authentication if the boxes are exposed to the internet, but that's another email) 2. install sshfs and mount the remote home directory: sudo apt-get install sshfs cd ~ mkdir mnt sshfs target_servers_ip_or_hostname mnt cd mnt ls I tend to use sshf for quick and dirty sharing, and nfs/smb (samba) for longer term or higher bandwidth sharing. HTH, -- Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
