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Dear list members, 

for the first time in my life (and after a couple of years
attempting to learn linux) I managed connect two laptops with 
PCI network cards and a crosswired cable, created a 

    ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 pointopint 192.168.1.2

connection and ping between them is working. 

One of these machines is a rather highend machine which 
ought to run Slax (Slackware 12.1) for a person without 
technical knowledge. I would like to access this machine from
the other laptop using one of the BL flavours. In the end 
this may be one of my customized RAM versions, but for 
experimenting I will use BL 3. I noticed that Slackware has some 
kind of expanded between ver. 3.5 and ver. 12.1. The following 
questions are applying to to BL2 and BL3. 

I would appreciate, if somebody could give me assistance: 

1) How to setup NFS file sharing: For BL2 I used to extract three
programs from Slackware 7.1. Probably I can find them in Slackware 
3.5 too. But which configuration files do I need in /etc?

2) On an earlier install I found /etc/exports that seemed to be used 
for networking. On the slax distribution there is no file with this 
name. Has the concept of NFS basically changed? 

3) Midnight commander seems to offer file sharing on a local 
network without a NFS server running. Has anybody made experience 
with this? Does it rsh? How can I set up rsh? 

4) The overkill Slax system also recognizes a wifi card. What 
will be needed for using it as a gateway for internet access? 

Regards, 
Christof

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