Re: Synchronize two computers

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

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 <sjoerd@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