Network question

[James McDonald]

Hmmm,

OK well I to take care of the occassional laptop I would install dhcpd on
one of the linux/Unix boxes and configure a small 192.168.x.x DHCP scope
to hand out an IP address when needed.

If you have the occassional Windows box then you will be needing samba at
some point. Installing samba is easy, if using a package based linux and
configuration is trivial because it comes with SWAT a web based
configuration utility. Just install samba-server and swat on the *nix box,
then point you browser to http://localhost:901

You could also use ftp for file sharing between boxes by installing
wu-ftpd or vs-ftpd or similar. NFS is not something I have had a lot to do
with so I will let others comment on it.

If you could let us know which version of Linux you have then we can
advise how to test for the correct software.

If you have a rpm based distribution (redhat mandrake etc) then doing

rpm -qa | grep -i <insert_search_word_here>

will show you what you have installed

..... hope this helps


> I've had UNIX and/or Linux at home for a very long time, but always just
> one or two independent machines that didn't need to share anything. Then
> I broke down and got printer sharing working.  Now I think I really need
> to share files.
>
> The question:  What's easiest to set up?
>
> I have a 3-computer network (4 counting an occasional laptop), and I
> mostly want to do backups over the net by having the old clunky machine
> with the CD-RW directly copying files.  It would be easiest if the
> subject machine didn't have to get too involved, and I'm not much
> worried about consistency here.  I'm mostly worried about fire and/or
> dying disk drives, so a little bit of inconsistency is the least of my
> worries.
>
> There are several 36-GB drives involved, but the actual backup
> traffic will be lots smaller than that.
>
> So I'm thinking NFS or perhaps Samba.  I'm not using Windoze much, but
> it does show up from time to time.
>
> So: where do I get information?  How do I tell if the software's
> already on my machine?  What solutions should I consider?
>
> ++ kevin
>
>
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James McDonald
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Singleton NSW Australia