Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> I just bought the Acer One netbook, on which Lenny seems to work > fine. What I >>> need now is: >>> >>> 1) connect it to my old Hyundai laptop so to share data between the two; >>> >>> 2) periodically save, e.g. to the Hyundai the changes I made in my home >>> directory in the Acer and viceversa. I wish that only the files > that really >>> changed were copied, so to save useless time. >>> >>> Can anybody provide suggestions about both issues? I've never > connected two >>> machines together.
Sjoerd Hardeman <sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl> writes: > If you use eg. network manager or wicd, you can use the gui-config tools that > come with these programmes. Else you have to set /etc/networks/interfaces (see > man interfaces) > Use either the 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x range, these ranges are for private > use. Configure eg the two pc's as > 192.168.0.1, netmask 255.255.255.0 > 192.168.0.2, netmask 255.255.255.0 > And then you can connect from 192.168.0.1 with `ssh 192.168.0.2' and vice > versa. Will it be enough to properly edit /etc/networks/interfaces on both machines? Can anybody suggest a practical example of those files for my case? Let's call the two pcs `acer' and `huyndai'. Thanks! Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org