RE: [newbie] copying files from one to another

>You "export" the mount points of the devices you want to share, start >NFS and on the other machine mount the remote machine... In order to run NFS, you must start portmap first, otherwise remote mounting of the nfs share will not work. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 S

RE: [newbie] copying files from one to another

lf Of Andrew Miller Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] copying files from one to another I have two laptops on the same network running Mandrake 8. Samba is installed and running on both. It is not clear to me how best to copy files from one to the

Re: [newbie] copying files from one to another

Try drakesync if you'd like. IT will use SSL to do so, or SSH, I can't remember which. You can also use scp. scp FILE.NAME $[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/for/file Do a which for scp to make sure it's installed and then check the man page for more information. tdh -- T. Holmes - UN

[newbie] copying files from one to another

I have two laptops on the same network running Mandrake 8. Samba is installed and running on both. It is not clear to me how best to copy files from one to the other for backup and synchronization purposes. Can someone recommend the best method? Andy