On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 05:57, anthony baldwin wrote: > Okay > I;ve been using linux for about 8 months now and it is time to get serious. > I want to network my iBook with this linux box. > I have them sharing the dsl connection, but not files or the printer. > Should I do that with nfs? smb? > And, can I set up an nfs server here when my ip is dynamic? When you say dynamic are you talking about the interface with your DSL connection ... or your internal lan address. If you are talking about a dynamic IP address (192.168., 172.20., 10.) because you are behind a router of some kind then you don't need to worry. If DSL goes directly into the linux server, you should firewall off the ports used by NFS/SMB unless you *really* need to access them over the network. (ports 2049+111 come to mind). As for the printer, I configured the printer on a third box as normal, then setup the printer on all other machines as a UNIX Printer (lpd) queue, put in the IP address and queue name ... fiddled the permissions and it was good to go... Unfortunately not sure how this would work with a Mac. I don't know the finer points of working with Mac's, but for me NFS is the better protocol. I have the laptop which essentially a mirrored desktop machine - when I'm feeling lazy on Sunday morning I simply mount the directory from the big box- then work from the laptop. File permissions, links and such like are really useful in this situation. Although there's no reason why you couldn't run both. -- NAME : Adam Allen. EMAIL : adam@dynamicinteraction.co.uk COMMENT : ~~~~ insert your favourite signature comment here ~~~~ PGP : http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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