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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sun, 18 May 2003 qwms-avib AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> >
> > 1) My home directory and the directory of DrDos have no
> > content.
>
> Perhaps they are not mounted?
>
> > 2)And I cannot go from the SuSe computer to my BL2
> > computer.
>
> In order to mount a filesystem across a network, the source
> computer must be running an NFS server.  Your SuSE computer
> is doing this, so any computer on the network can mount from
> the SuSE computer (as long as the permissions are correct).
> However, BL2 does not contain an NFS server (although you
> can add one from Slackware).
>
This is an interesting thread.  Having gotten a bit more comfortable with
networking now, I've begun to wonder how I can transfer files between
computers on my network.  Using MC as Constant is doing seems like one
good way of doing that.  Can anyone suggest other ways of transferring
files/data on my network?  It seems ftp would work, given the right
settings and software.  Telnet should allow this as well, but I have yet
to discover how that would work.  What are the relative merits/demerits
of the various options?  Anyway, please offer any suggestions you can
think of for file transfer/sharing on my small home network.

Thanks, James