Re: Sharing files on a local network
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:25:16AM BST, yudi v wrote:
> I have a Debian PC connected to the Internet via mobile broadband and I have
> this Internet connection shared with an ubuntu pc via Ethernet connection.
> Internet connection works fine.
Let me recap:
Internet over mobile <---> Debian PC <---> Ubuntu PC
> I can ping the Debian PC but cannot ping the Ubuntu PC, how come?
Where from?
> I would like to share files between these two systems. From what I
> understand my options are Samba, SSH and NFS. I only used SSH before and it
> takes a while to set-up securely and I haven't used NFS or Samba, not sure
> how steep the learning curve is. Because it's a direct ethernet connection,
> SSH is more than what I need for this situation. I don't think a secure
> connection is needed. Is there a simpler way of achieving this?
If you're only trying to share files between Debian and Ubuntu, without
any MS Windows involved, you don't need Samba. As you mentioned before
SSH is an overkill as well - I'd suggest NFS in that case, it's very
easy to set up.
There are other ways of achieving this, e.g. FTP, but IMHO using a
mounted filesystem is easier and more convenient than using some sort of
client software, especially on home-only network.
Regards,
--
Raf
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