Samba is not native to Linux. It is for sharing files on Linux in a file
server fashion with windows.
For two Linux boxes you might want to look at NFS or Network File System.
This might get you started : http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/
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Keith Smith
2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International) : if my people, who are called by my
name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their
wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and
will heal their land.
--- On Tue, 3/22/11, S Kreimeyer <skrei...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: S Kreimeyer <skrei...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: network ; basic how to...
To: nicepeng...@webcanine.com, "Main PLUG discussion list" <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:31 PM
Betty,
I'm not familiar with Samba, but I know you can accomplish the same thing
through SSH. There is a pretty good tutorial for that here,
http://linuxowns.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/share-files-between-2-ubuntu-computers/
The steps are pretty straight forward, and SSH is included in most modern
linux distributions. The only thing I don't think it mentions explicitly is
how to determine your IP. This is most easily done through the terminal.
$ ifconfig
your output will look something like this
--snip--
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 1c:4b:d6:ba:86:dd
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::1e4b:d6ff:feba:86dd/64 Scope:Link
--snip--
The text I bolded is what you're looking for. The numbers may even be the
same. If you are using a wired connection then you will likely need the IP
from "eth0"
If anything in that guide doesn't work, you should be able to do
everything from the terminal. More info on that can be found here
http://support.suso.com/supki/SSH_Tutorial_for_Linux or from the man
pages for SSH in the terminal ( $ man ssh ). Hope that helps.
Regards,
Sam
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 15:43 -0700, betty wrote:
i have two linux computers called 'stormy' and 'stormy too'. i want to be
in one of my offices in the house and access files or send files to another
office in my house. ie, send from 'stormy' to 'stormy too' .
they are both on a wired connection to my cox service.
i have installed 'samba'. (but i don't know where it is on the gui)
i think i have to enable file sharing through the
'admin>preferences>personal file sharing, but when i go to that the screen
says "this feature cannot be enabled because the required packages are not
installed on your system" . well that is all fine and good, but it does not
tell me what the required packages are.
this is frustrating.
is this something that is over my head?
as usual thank you for your magnificent and useful help; please keep basic
as possible.
maybe there is an easy tutorial i can follow?, i looked but as expected,
there is a plethora of sites....
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