Pierre Labastie wrote:
Le 13/10/2014 17:45, Dan McGhee a écrit :
On Oct 12, 2014, at 9:15 AM, Dan McGhee <beesn...@grm.net> wrote:
On Oct 12, 2014, at 8:37 AM, Armin K. <kre...@email.com> wrote:
Use file sharing, you can choose from:
NFS Shares (nfs-utils needed for client and/or server on a Linux box
and
it's possible that MAC OSX may support NFS out of the box).
SMB/CIFS shares (aka Windows Shares - for server support on Linux,
Samba
is the way to go, while for client you may be able to mount a cifs
share
without installing any additional components or you have at least to
install cifs-utils package).
One thing I’m still getting used to on my new iMac is “helpful”
help. I’m adding this just for the record. “Out of the box” OS.10
supports AFB, NFS, SMB/CIF and ftp. It’s just a matter of setting up
the other machine.
The concept of clients are servers is one of those things I thought I
understood but really don’t. I’ve looked at a bit of information
discussing what each does, but as far as my desires go, I didn’t find
the answer to what I want to do.
I’m pretty sure that my iMac is both a client and a server for file
sharing. If I build and install NFS-utils on my laptop and configure
only the client, will I be able to move files both ways? I don’t
necessarily want to conduct operations from one machine on the other,
I just want to grab stuff from my laptop and put it on my Mac so I can
read it. And vice versa.
With my current state of knowledge, I know that I need NFS-Utils (my
choice from all the options). But what I don’t know is what I need
from NFS-Utils on my laptop to do what I want.
AFAIK, The client can see, and mount the drives (not necessarily
physical drives, sometimes called a "share" rather than a "drive") on
the server, while this is not possible the other way around. Once you
have mounted a drive on the client, you can use it as if it were local,
which means transfer data in both direction (unless mounted readonly).
So, if you want to work from the Mac and see what is going on with the
laptop, the laptop is the server and the Mac is the client. If you need
to work from the laptop, this is the other way around. I you want to
work from both, of course, each computer can be client and server at the
same time. The server needs to be configured (essentially to define
which drives/shares are exported to the potential clients, see "man
exports").
I mostly agree with the above, but cringe at the "share" terminology as
that is MS specific. Actually what is shared is a directory, not a
drive. You can export a single directory tree and whether that is a
whole partition depends on what is exported and where a partition is
mounted. You don't share a whole "drive" unless the device is
partitioned as a single partition.
Just being picky. :)
-- Bruce
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